ComboStrap URL Management - Best End Page Name Scoring
Table of Contents
1 - About
The Best End Page Name is a redirection scoring algorithm that finds the best page to redirect to when a non-existent page is requested.
This algorithm performs the scoring by looping through the different part of a page name from the end to the beginning. For instance, if the page name was name1:name2:name3, the algorithm would check first name3, then name2, then name1
This concept comes from the fact that a content has a natural hierarchical structure. If you have created a page called bird:sparrow:
- there is a lot of chance that a page with the same last name (ie sparrow) would be the good one
- there is also even more chance if this page was in the same category bird
- and so on.
2 - Articles Related
3 - Algorithm
When a user request a missing page (ie species:bird:sparrow), the algorithm would:
- search all pages with the last name.
- if there is no pages, returns and let the next redirection action take place.
- if it found pages. For instance, this two pages:
- animal:bird:sparrow
- europe:sparrow
- it will score them by giving 1 point recursively for each matching name processing from the end to the beginning. For instance:
- 2 point for animal:bird:sparrow (1 point for sparrow and 1 point for bird)
- 1 point for europe:sparrow
- it will then select the page with the highest score.
- if the page has a score that is higher or equal to the BestEndPageMinimalScoreForIdRedirect configuration:
- the redirection would be an ID redirect
- otherwise it would be an HTTP redirect
4 - Configuration
- BestEndPageMinimalScoreForIdRedirect: This configuration permits to send an id redirect in place of a http redirect when the score of the best page is higher or equal.