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A large website is typically organized into a hierarchy (a "tree") of topics and subtopics.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Chesnut |first=Donald |title=UX for dummies |last2=Nichols |first2=Kevin |publisher=[[Wiley]] |year=2014 |isbn=9781118852781 |___location=West Sussex, England |pages=141 |language=English}}</ref> Tree testing provides a way to measure how well users can find items in this hierarchy.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Elleithy |first=Khaled |title=Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering : Proceedings of SCSS 2005 |last2=Sobh |first2=Tarek |publisher=Springer |year=2006 |isbn=9781402052620 |___location=Dordrecht |pages=232 |language=en}}</ref>
Unlike traditional [[usability testing]], tree testing is not done on the website itself; instead, a simplified text version of the site structure is used. This ensures that the structure is evaluated in isolation, nullifying the effects of navigational aids, [[visual design]], and other factors.
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