A survey paper on techniques and applications of web usage mining

The process of finding out valuable knowledge drawn out from web data is known as web mining. Identifying the various patterns and utilizing the vast knowledge extracted from those patterns is important from various perspectives such as business intelligence, e-learning, personalization etc. The web mining area which deals with extraction of patterns from user's weblogs is called as web usage mining, which is an implementation part of data mining. This paper focuses on the working of web usage mining, data sources for web usage mining and applications of web usage mining is explained in detail in this paper. Further, we explain the issues and current challenges in web usage mining.