WEB LOG MINING - A STUDY

The analysis of web log files may give information that are useful for improving the services offered by web portals and information access and retrieval tools, giving information on problems occurred to the users and gain knowledge from the web. A particular useful kind of knowledge, which can be applied to improve the performance of web service. Web log file analysis began with the purpose to offer to web site administrators a way to ensure adequate bandwidth and server capacity to their organization. It is way to evaluate the effectiveness of a Web site and its information access tools is through the mining of web log files. This study reports on initial findings on a specific aspect that is highly relevant to web mining and extracting useful patterns from the web.