Method for recommending short-cuts in order to ease and fasten navigating within navigation topology

The present invention relates to the field of network computing, and in particular to method and system for designing a Web Portal comprising a hierarchical structure of portal pages and portlets for accessing Web contents accessible via the Portal. For offering improved web application navigation it is proposed to perform the steps of: a) during navigation of a user in the topology of said web portal automatically sensing (520, 525) information about the navigational behavior of said user for each page comprised of said navigation, b) deriving (530) page hits and page target hits from said sensed information, wherein page hits are defined for pages clicked for reaching another page, and page target hits are defined for pages a user clicks in order to perform a page- specific task or to receive some page-specific information, c) using a predefined metric based on said sensed information for generating a utility ranking for the web pages comprised of the user navigation, d) tracking (620) the current navigatio