International journal of advanced smart convergence

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Web Server Log Visualization

  • Kim, Jungkee (Department of Glocal IT, Sungkonghoe University)
  • Received : 2018.10.08
  • Accepted : 2018.10.21
  • Published : 2018.12.31
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Abstract

Visitors to a Web site leave access logs documenting their activity in the site. These access logs provide a valuable source of information about the visitors' access patterns in the Web site. In addition to the pages that the user visited, it is generally possible to discover the geographical locations of the visitors. Web servers also records other information such as the entry into the site, the URL, the used operating system and the browser, etc. There are several Web mining techniques to extract useful information from such information and visualization of a Web log is one of those techniques. This paper presents a technique as well as a case a study of visualizing a Web log.

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Figure 1. Preparation chart on the Web log analysis

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Figure 2. Three dimensional graphs of a day access

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Figure 3. Two dimensional graph between access time and remote hosts

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Figure 4. Two dimensional graph between access time and access pages

Table 1. Types of Web Server Logs [8]

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Table 2. HTTP/1.0 server status codes

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