Web mining and analysis of a web site

Data mining is to search for relations and rules through large amount of data using computer software, in order to make predictions about future. One of the most important goals of data mining is to detect the secret relations and patterns through data which seems to be meaningless, and use this information to produce a beneficial result.Web mining is described as using data mining techniques to explore and extract information from web documents and web services. The goal of data mining, detecting secret patterns through data which seems to be meaningless has a very big importance for web mining. Web documents are growing very fast, and usage data need web mining studies for detecting secret relations. Web mining can be examined under three topics: Web content mining, web structure mining, web usage mining. The goal of this study is to examine the studies made by using Web Mining techniques, and to analyze Sakarya University Web Site using similar techniques.In this thesis firstly, data mining and the data exploration process on databases are studied. After that, disciplines of web mining are introduced. With the knowledge gained by the recent studies, web mining analysis of Sakarya University web site has been made, and in order to gain exact results, web access logs are prepared for web mining techniques. What kind of benefits have been gained are from the application result emphasized.