Fig. 3. Sample of Bots and Crawler Log Report
One can even look for search phrases from the log of the website to see
what visitors are mostly looking for on the search function of the
website and maybe analyze that a little further to improve on the
current system and develop something new or make those mostly searched
after functions more to the front of the website so that the user’s
don’t have to go looking for it every time.
The log analysis also displays the amount of time spent on a page by the
users as well which sometimes helps to indicate whether the viewer is a
human or a bot/crawler because the usual time for a human to spend on a
page is much more than what crawlers and bots spends, so when the
average visit duration is very less, almost in the range of few seconds
then one can assume that most of the visitors are bots and crawlers
rather than actual humans, for which they can implement one of those
Google’s verification methods of having to go through a few steps to
prove that you are a human and not a bot whenever you try to access the
website. Such information can help the admins to direct traffic a lot
and manage the capacity of their servers as well since too much hits
will lead to too requiring of huge amount of bandwidth which might be
costly at times.