Open AccessDesign and development of a web traffic analyser
Author(s) -
Salim M. Ali,
Mustafa A. Neamah
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1530/1/012010
Subject(s) - computer science , world wide web , web navigation , web page , web development , web design , session (web analytics) , static web page , web modeling , web traffic , page view , traffic analysis , the internet , computer network
This paper focuses on web traffic analysis; we explore the complexity of modern web pages by tracing network packets for the types of objects requested when loading a web page. Furthermore, web pages are not analogous to each other, their design and implementation relies on the purpose of the website. Similarly, web pages that are designed for a specific area, say e-commerce, would have the same development process, which then reflects on the code and objects used to develop such websites. This will lead us to a speculation that web surfers who have similar intention of browsing, they will have similar web traffic in terms of number of different objects and the total size of data transferred through the network. Conversely, inspecting the type, size and number of objects within the browsing session will show us an approximate of what the users’ intention to browse or like to browse next.