Web Log Analysis Software

Web log analysis software is also referred to as a web log analyzer. It is used to examine the web traffic data. Most of the web servers conserve the data about each visit to a web page, to a log file on the system. These log files are then utilized by log file analysis software to develop activity reports for web usage.

It is a type of web analytics software that analyzes a server log file from a web server, and on the basis of the values enclosed in the log file, develops indicators about when, why, how, and by whom a web server is visited. Generally the reports are created from the log files, but the log files can otherwise be explained to a database and the reports can be created on request.

The prominent features sustained by log analysis packages includes - hit filters, which utilizes the pattern matching method to inspect the selected log data.