Extracting Knowledge from User Access Logs

As the size of web increases along with number of users, it is very much essential for the website owners to better understand their customers so that they can provide better service, and also enhance the quality of the website. To achieve this they depend on the web access log files. . It is is a file to which the Web server writes information each time a user requests a resource from that particular site. In this paper we will study web access log files and the information we can mine from logs which is useful in understanding user behavior. This information is used in restructuring and redesigning of the website.