Local Navigation Is a Valuable Orientation and Wayfinding Aid

Local navigation indicates to users where they are and what other content is nearby in an information hierarchy. Local navigation is a type of navigation that is contextual to the user’s current location. It shows sibling pages within the current category, and if applicable, the children or nieces and nephews of the current page. The global navigation is stable — users can expect that it will remain the same throughout the site and they can use it to jump between major categories. Local navigation does not vary from user to user or session to session.