Dynamically identifying and evaluating component hierarchy for rendering content components on a webpage

Abstract

A method to perform component-based rendering of a webpage includes identifying a component hierarchy from which to render the webpage. A set of components are selected from the component hierarchy as an evaluation component set. The evaluation component set is evaluated by determining that a particular component of the evaluation component set does not include a data request for data item to be used in the rendering of the webpage. Responsive to the determination, least one child component of the particular component is identified within the component hierarchy. The child component is added to the evaluation component set.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A system comprising:
 a hierarchy module configured to identify a component hierarchy from which to render a webpage; and   an evaluation module configured to select a set of components from the component hierarchy as an evaluation component set, and to evaluate the evaluation component set by:
 determining that a particular component of the evaluation component set does not include a data request for a data item to be used in the rendering of the webpage; 
 responsive to the determination, identifying at least one child component of the particular component within the component hierarchy; and 
 adding the at least one child component to the evaluation component set.