WEB USAGE STATISTICS - MEASUREMENT ISSUES AND ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES

The number of federal agencies creating and maintaining electronic net worked resources continues to increase. One networked resource federal agencies are increasingly using is the World Wide Web (Web). As gover nment use of the Web rises, so too does the need for assessing the ext ent and nature of public use of agency Web sites. One means of Web use evaluation is through the analysis of Web server-generated log files. This article presents various log file analysis techniques and issues related to the interpretation of log file data.