The time needed to scrape out any true information is for the most part used on information preprocessing. The information preprocessing stage lays the foundation for information mining with which, the client extricate and distinguish pertinent data from the World Wide Web. In this paper, we examine information preprocessing systems and different steps included in getting the obliged substance adequately. A powerful web log preprocessing technique is constantly proposed for web log preprocessing to concentrate the client designs. The information cleaning method uproots the unessential passages from web log and sifting calculation disposes of the uninterested characteristics from log record.

Preprocessing, Web usage, Web log

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