Study on Various Web Mining Functionalities using Web Log Files

As the size of web increases along with number of users, it is very much essential for the websiteowners to better understand their customers so that they can provide better service, and also enhance thequality of the website. To achieve this they depend on the web access log files. The web access log files can bemined to extract interesting pattern so that the user behavior can be understood. This paper presents anoverview of web usage mining and also provides a survey of functionalities that are associated with web logfiles used for web usage mining.