Performance Analysis of a Website using Key Performance Indicators
Navin Kumar Tyagi, Anil Kumar Solanki and Manoj Kumar Sharma. Article: Performance Analysis of a Website using Key Performance Indicators. IJCA Special Issue on Issues and Challenges in Networking, Intelligence and Computing Technologies ICNICT(5):8-12, November 2012. Full text available. BibTeX
@article{key:article,
author = {Navin Kumar Tyagi and Anil Kumar Solanki and Manoj Kumar Sharma},
title = {Article: Performance Analysis of a Website using Key Performance Indicators},
journal = {IJCA Special Issue on Issues and Challenges in Networking, Intelligence and Computing Technologies},
year = {2012},
volume = {ICNICT},
number = {5},
pages = {8-12},
month = {November},
note = {Full text available}
}
Abstract
Web analytics is the measurement of visitor behaviour on a website and it can be used to collect basic visitor information such as number of visitors and visit duration etc. This basic information can then be combined to create meaningful key performance indicators which are used to analyze the performance of the website. In this paper we analyzed the log files of a website using a log analyzer tool. We used different key performance indicators like visit depth, frequency of visit and visitor ratio for our analysis.
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