Web Server Log Analysis Using Web Usage Mining

Log Files are the data files which includes the log information's like the name of the user, Date and access time, request type, transferred bytes from server and from client, response status and accessed URL. These files are created and maintained by web servers as well as server tools like IIS, Apache and etc. It's necessary to know the interest of web users to offer effective services [1]. The main theme of analyzing web usages with the help of log file helps to understand the users future needs and maintains the content of the website by based on the previous data. This paper discusses about the log files and management of log files. This paper also proposes a graphical representation of web usage results.