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The Web constitutes huge, distributed and dynamically growing hyper medium, supporting access to data and services. In corporate business due to strong market competition more organizations rely on web to conduct business, website design & management becoming critical issue in web based applications. One of the vital goals of organizations is having attractive & well organized website. Website managers are responsible to take decisions about contents & hyperlink structure in order to capture the attention of visitor’s. Visitor’s interactions with website are stored in server logs and serves as huge electronic survey of website. In this paper server logs are analyzed using the web log analyzer program to get general statistics about hit’s, visitor’s, visit’s, browsers, operating systems, referring sites, spider URL’s, eminent & delicate pages and statistics about error pages, broken links. Obtained results can be useful to website manager to evaluate website, helps in improving the effectiveness of website.
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Vemulapalli, S., M., S. (2013). An Effective Analysis of Server Log for Website Evaluation. In: Satapathy, S., Udgata, S., Biswal, B. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35314-7_16
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