# Web Agents & Navigation Benchmarks: Research Digest

> 10 foundational papers with 234 combined citations, plus the latest arXiv preprints.

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## Key data

- **Field:** web navigation agents benchmarks
- **Foundational:** 10
- **Recent (arXiv):** 8
- **Updated:** 2026-10-30

10 foundational papers with 234 combined citations, plus the latest arXiv preprints.

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## Sources

1. [WebRetriever: A Large-Scale Comprehensive Benchmark for Efficient Web Agent Evaluation](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-37035-8_28)
2. [From grounding to planning: Benchmarking bottlenecks in web agents](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3233/FAIA251390)
3. [Webds: An end-to-end benchmark for web-based data science](https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2026/hash/35686e5837762715a9b105c96cba43af-Abstract-Conference.html)
4. [MolmoWeb: Open Visual Web Agent and Open Data for the Open Web](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-37393-9_17)
5. [WARC-Bench: Web Archive based Benchmark for GUI Subtask Executions](https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2026/hash/2bf17c1d28ba14a8c7cf432c9910af6e-Abstract-Conference.html)
6. [Mm-browsecomp: A comprehensive benchmark for multimodal browsing agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13186)
7. [The Hard Part Comes After Search: Benchmarking Web Agents on Synthesizing, Organizing, and Displaying Knowledge](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30604)
8. [Error Patterns of Large Language Model Agents in Multi-Step Web Navigation: A Comparative Empirical Study across Prompting Strategies and Backends](http://academianexusjournal.com/index.php/anj/article/view/69)
9. [CAP: A Scalable Benchmark for Evaluating Cross-Site Browser Agents with Complex Actions and Perception](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08392)
10. [St-webagentbench: A benchmark for evaluating safety and trustworthiness in web agents](https://proceedings.iclr.cc/paper_files/paper/2026/hash/c6c29e590e3c62e37e6b39cdd6baf2e8-Abstract-Conference.html)
11. [SkillLifeBench: Benchmarking Security Across the Lifecycle of Agent Skills](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.35215v1)
12. [Harness-Model Collaboration for Long-Horizon Continual Learning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34724v1)
13. [AgentProofBench: Benchmarking Reusable Verifiers for Web Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34634v1)
14. [SkillShift-Bench: Benchmarking Skill Learning under Environment Evolution for Web Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33528v1)
15. [Learning What to Ask for Tomorrow: Active Preference Acquisition for Long-Term Personalized Web Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.31107v2)
16. [MPIDetector: Detecting Multi-modal Prompt Injection via LLM-based Reasoning](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.30202v1)
17. [LoWAgent: A Low-Resource Multilingual Benchmark for Web Agents](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27205v2)
18. [Don't Retrain, Remix: Adaptation of Web Agents using Mixture Hypernetworks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.22539v1)

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