Website usage metrics: A re-assessment of session data

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 358-372

  Huntington, Paul ^a   Nicholas, David ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Session identification; Sessionization; User behaviour; Web log analysis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; USER INTERFACES;

SESSION IDENTIFICATION; USER BEHAVIOR; WEB LOG ANALYSIS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 35548983437     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2007.03.003     Document Type: Article

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