Thursday, February 22, 2007

A Comprehensive Report on Web Log Analysis

In today’s dynamic world, the IT sector of all the businesses want to use more sophisticated techniques to support their application scalability. All the web site owners are interested to know the usage pattern of their site in order to make any business decisions. The necessity to know the visitor profile is very high in any web site as most of time the visitors are anonymous & unpredictable for any open systems (which uses internet).

The Web analytics activity deals with measuring the end user behaviors on a web site. Of the two major web analytics techniques (Web server log analysis & Page Tagging) available, this paper deals with the Web Server Log Analysis concepts. This paper provides an overview of various log analyzer tools available in the market & their comparative ratings.

The Web log analysis is used by various types of users with different backgrounds. The different sets of users are interested to know about specific data from the web server log. This has lead to the development of lot of log analyzer tools with specific extra features, though the basic features are available in most of the tools.


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