Design and development of a web traffic analyser

Abstract

Abstract This paper focuses on web traffic analysis; we explore the complexity of modern web pages by tracing network packets for the types of objects requested when loading a web page. Furthermore, web pages are not analogous to each other, their design and implementation relies on the purpose of the website. Similarly, web pages that are designed for a specific area, say e-commerce, would have the same development process, which then reflects on the code and objects used to develop such websites. This will lead us to a speculation that web surfers who have similar intention of browsing, they will have similar web traffic in terms of number of different objects and the total size of data transferred through the network. Conversely, inspecting the type, size and number of objects within the browsing session will show us an approximate of what the users’ intention to browse or like to browse next.