Optimizing Automated Interactions with Web Applications

A system for optimizing automated interactions with web pages, the system comprising:

• a processor programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:
• identifying, for each of a plurality of web pages, path information including:
• a) an incoming hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, wherein the incoming hyperlink path leads to the web page, or
• b) an outgoing hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, wherein the outgoing hyperlink path emanates from the web page;
• determining, using a processor, whether the path information of each of the web pages meets a similarity condition;
• excluding from an interaction set of the web pages any of the web pages whose path information meets the similarity condition;
• and
• causing an automated interaction to be performed with any of the web pages in the interaction set.

A computer program product for optimizing automated interactions with web applications, the computer program product comprising:

• a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium;
• and
• computer-readable program code embodied in the computer-readable storage medium, wherein the computer-readable program code is configured to
• identify, for each of a plurality of web pages, path information including:
• a) an incoming hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, wherein the incoming hyperlink path leads to the web page, or
• b) an outgoing hyperlink path having at least one hyperlink, wherein the outgoing hyperlink path emanates from the web page,
• determine whether the path information of each of the web pages meets a similarity condition,
• exclude from an interaction set of the web pages any of the web pages whose path information meets the similarity condition, and
• cause an automated interaction to be performed with any of the web pages in the interaction set.