Title
Problems Modeling Web Sites and User Behavior
Abstract
As the world wide web has grown in size and scope, so too has the demand for analysis tools that can help web site providers determine how their sites are being used. Early analysis approaches focused primarily on accesses to web documents as recorded in web server logs. More recent techniques create a model of a site, and the natural modeling approach is to use a directed graph, where pages are denoted by nodes and links are modeled by edges. The process of creating the model and then analyzing the corresponding visitor traffic, however, is fraught with difficulties. The contribution of this paper is a catalog of problems gathered from extensive experience modeling web sites to determine site structure and analyze user behavior.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/WSE.2006.16
Philadelphia, PA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Web sites,directed graphs,Web site analysis,Web sites modeling,World Wide Web,directed graph,user behavior modeling
Static web page,Data mining,Web API,World Wide Web,Web page,Computer science,Web standards,Web modeling,Web navigation,Web service,Web server
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-4441
0-7695-2696-9
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.49
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Spencer Rugaber161973.52
Nissim Harel2454.79
Srihari Govindharaj330.49
Dean Jerding430.49