Tree testing is likely to suit you if:
Most sites are like this. For example, ~
However, some sites show the user several ways to navigate on any given page, so that it’s hard to make out which is the “main” top-down structure.
For example, here’s the WebMD site, showing the Living Healthy section. The topics offered here are circled in red:
However, the Living Healthy mega-menu shows a different set of topics:
It would be hard to run a realistic tree test on a site like this.
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