Abstract:
The purpose of A Study of Walailak University Websites Visitor Behaviour is to
develop tools for analysing the behaviour of visitors to Walailak Universitys website
mining log files from the web server and to propose the direction for website
development. This project studied the visitors access from outside Walailak University.
The emphasis is an analysing the most popular webpages visited, IP addresses that
logged on the longest as well as behaviour of visitors with the data mining technique.
The tools build for the study consisted of a system to analyse behaviour of users
of Walailak University website and macro command in Microsoft Excel. The process
started from importing log files to prepare information that was related to the analysis
with Microsoft Access and export to Microsoft Excel to calculate the time and arrange
the webpage order of each visit with macro command and import to a system for the
statistical analysis of user behaviour in the Walailak University website and for the report
of the analytical output.
The results indicated that the most popular webpages in the news group varied
from studentss news, education news and job advertisements. School and curriculum
webpages included Institute of Allied Health Sciences and Public Health, Shool of
Management, School of Informatics and Institute of Liberal Arts. Education webpages
comprised Admission website, Undergraduate programmes and Postgraduate
programmes. The association rules indicated that the WU homepage was must related
to Admission website, Shool of Management, job advertisements and students news.
Suggestions for improvement of the WU website is that in designing the webpage, the
position of the website title of the first webpage must be carefully chosen to make it the
most outstanding and links should be constructed to related webpages for easy and
convenient access.
WALAILAK UNIVERSITY. CENTER FOR LIBRARY RESOURCES AND EDUCATIONAL MEDIA