A collection of inter-related files on one or more web servers is known as Web, while web mining means extracting valuable information from web databases. Web mining is one of the data mining domains where data mining techniques are used for extracting information from the web servers. The web data includes web pages, web links, objects on the web and web logs. Web mining is used to understand the customer behavior, evaluate a particular website based on the information, which is stored in web log files. Web mining is generated by making use of the data mining techniques, classification, clustering, and association rules. The collection of information becomes very hard to find, extract, filter or evaluate the relevant information for the users. With the flood of information on the Web, Web mining is a new research issue, which draws great interest from many communities. Currently, there is no agreement about Web mining yet. It needs more discussion among researchers in order to define what it is exactly. In this paper, we have studied the basic concepts of web, web mining, classification, processes, the taxonomy and the function of Web mining.

Web Mining, Taxonomy, web structure mining

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