Internet users in the world increasing rapidly. At the present time, the best way of conveying information is the World Wide Web. There are so many websites for learning, shopping, selling, businesses and many more. The expansion of Internet usage will result in increasing web data speedily. To exploit the information of internet usage, it becomes necessary to extract the access behavior of the users.Web usage mining is one of such Data mining technique used for mining, web access log.These access logs are saved on the web server.Access log is the records of all the user, requests for a particular file from a website.Web usage mining will help in improving the design of the website and the personalization of the content. This paper gives the comparative study of web usage mining, it also summarizes the web usage mining approach like pre-processing, pattern discovery, pattern analysis, visualization. This survey listed various research work done by the researcher. It delivers numerous techniques and algorithms used in web usage mining.

server log, access log, web usage mining, pre-processing, user identification, session identification, clustering, classification, pattern discovery & analysis

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