SPATIALLY-ORIENTED TRAVERSAL ANIMATIONS FOR NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSITIONS

A device for providing spatially-oriented traversal animations during web navigation. The device is configured to perform operations that include receiving a destination Internet address for a destination web page into a graphical web browser that is displaying a current web page having a current Internet address on an electronic display. The operations can further include determining, via electronic analysis of the destination Internet address and the current Internet address, a relationship between the destination Internet address and the current Internet address. The operations can further include determining a spatially-oriented traversal animation based on the relationship. The spatially-oriented traversal animation is from a plurality of different types of animations associated with different hierarchical relationships between Internet pages within the Internet domain. The operations can further include animating bringing the destination web page onto the electronic display using the spatially-oriented traversal animation and, afterwards, displaying the destination web page.