Web Usage Mining enables new understanding of user goals on the Web. This understanding has broad applications, and traditional
mining techniques such as association rules have been used in business applications. We have developed an automated method
to directly infer the major groupings of user traffic on a Web site [Heer01]. We do this by utilizing multiple data features
of user sessions in a clustering analysis. We have performed an extensive, systematic evaluation of the proposed approach,
and have discovered that certain clustering schemes can achieve categorization accuracies as high as 99% [Heer02b]. In this
paper, we describe the further development of this work into a prototype service called LumberJack, a push-button analysis
system that is both more automated and accurate than past systems.
Keywords Clustering - Log Analysis - Web Mining - User Profile - User Sessions - World Wide Web