An application for multidimensional analysis of the Web site traffic

Considers the use of online analytical processing (OLAP) tools to provide fast, interactive analysis of Web-site traffic. For the purpose of analysing our own hierarchically organized Web site, the Directory of Croatian WWW Servers, an OLAP application (OLAWEB) has been developed. We describe data extraction from existing server access log files, the data transformation necessary to prepare data for multidimensional analysis, and the storage of the Web-site traffic data. The basic characteristics of the OLAWEB application are explained. Using this application, the Web-site administrator and other users are able to get fast answers to many unpredictable and complex questions that could not be answered by available statistical tools.