DocumentCode
2637126
Title
Determining WWW user agents from server access log
Author
Kabe, Taketo ; Miyazaki, Masatoshi
Author_Institution
SRA Tohoku, Japan
fYear
2000
fDate
36800
Firstpage
173
Lastpage
178
Abstract
It is a common practice to analyze an access log of an WWW server to obtain data, such as user agent vendor percentage, supplying information more suitably, or to measure information exposure rate (mainly for advertisement effectiveness). HTTP does have an “User-Agent” header to let user agents supply their product names for these kinds of use, but in fact relying solely on this tends to be inaccurate. This paper presents some considerations needed for log analysis to determine the user agent in a more precise way, and application to an actual access log resulted in 2 percent difference compared to conventional method
Keywords
search engines; transport protocols; WWW user agents; access log; information exposure rate; log analysis; server access log; user agent; user agent vendor percentage; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Information science; Information systems; Internet; Protection; Protocols; Web server; Web sites; World Wide Web;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Parallel and Distributed Systems: Workshops, Seventh International Conference on, 2000
Conference_Location
Iwate
Print_ISBN
0-7695-0571-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/PADSW.2000.884534
Filename
884534
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