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.