4383 2023 2023 eng 356 369 2023 conferencepaper 0 -- -- -- Measurement studies are essential for research and industry alike to understand the Web’s inner workings better and help quantify specific phenomena. Performing such studies is demanding due to the dynamic nature and size of the Web. An experiment’s careful design and setup are complex, and many factors might affect the results. However, while several works have independently observed differences in the outcome of an experiment (e.g., the number of observed trackers) based on the measurement setup, it is unclear what causes such deviations. This work investigates the reasons for these differences by visiting 1.7M webpages with five different measurement setups. Based on this, we build ‘dependency trees’ for each page and cross-compare the nodes in the trees. The results show that the measured trees differ considerably, that the cause of differences can be attributed to specific nodes, and that even identical measurement setups can produce different results. Proceedings of the 23nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '23) https://norbert-pohlmann.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/453-On-the-Similarity-of-Web-Measurements-Under-Different-Experimental-Setups-Prof-Norbert-Pohlmann.pdf © Alle Rechte vorbehalten Nurullah Demir Jan Hörnemann Matteo Große-Kampmann Tobias Urban Norbert Pohlmann Thorsten Holz Christian Wressnegger Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen Bocholt Recklinghausen