Web Usage Mining and Internet User Behaviour in Web: A Survey

In recent years the growth of the World Wide Web exceeded all expectations. Today, there are several billions of HTML documents, Pictures and other multimedia files available via Internet and the number is still rising. In real problems, several studies have been conducted, presented and used on user behaviour in Internet. Various studies on Internet user behaviours have been presented and used in real problems. Data mining techniques are expected to be a more effective tool for analyzing user behaviour. This paper is a survey of recent work in the field of web usage mining for the benefit of research on the Internet user behaviour. A main research area in Web mining focused on learning Web users and their interactions within Websites is Web usage mining. Web usage mining is a main research area in Web mining focused on learning about Web users and their interactions with Web sites. A lot of research has been done already about this area and the obtained results are used in different applications such as recommending the Web usage patterns, personalization, system improvement and business intelligence.