Johannes Beus

During the course of our ongoing development of the Toolbox, we also look at ways to show new features as best as possible – the best data becomes useless if you are unable to easily analyze it. The backlink-module especially has a large increase in the amount of data that is available and visualizing the connections among themselves has become rather problematic in form of charts. Because of this I want to introduce an alternative in the
SISTRIX Labs: being inspired by the Java-Applet
Touchgraph, which shows site-connections based on the Google-informations for ”similar sites“, we are testing how it works when it is based on links. When you input a domain, we show 10 domains that link to the queried domain. By clicking on the green plus that shows up for each domain when you mouse over it, you can expand the displayed links and show more of the linknetwork. Additionally, you can also see the amount of outgoing links for a domain when you move your mouse over the icon. The lower part of the tool lets you switch to full-screen mode and scale the size to your liking. This implementation is based on JavaScript – this has the advantage that most of the current browsers will be able to run it without extra plugins, sadly the Internet Explorer is the only browser that does not like to play nice. I will make this
tool available to everyone until the end of the week and would be thankful for some feedback in return.