what is breadcrumbs in website

Breadcrumbs in website design are a type of secondary navigation scheme that reveals the users location in a website or web application. They are called breadcrumbs because they function similarly to the trail of breadcrumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the fairy tale. Breadcrumbs are horizontally arranged text links separated by the “greater than” symbol (>), indicating the level of that page relative to the page links beside it. They are used primarily to give users a secondary means of navigating a website, allowing them to navigate to higher-level categories more easily and reducing clicks or actions to return to higher-level pages. Breadcrumbs are also used to improve the findability of a website. There are different types of breadcrumbs, including hierarchy-based breadcrumbs that follow the site architecture of a website. Breadcrumbs are an essential part of almost every good website, and they help Google work out how a site is structured and its contents.