Characterizing browsing strategies in the World-Wide Web
Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web conference on Technology, tools and applications
Analysis of a very large web search engine query log
ACM SIGIR Forum
Usage patterns of a Web-based library catalog
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Efficient Data Mining for Path Traversal Patterns
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Monitoring and evaluation of information systems via transaction log analysis
SIGIR '84 Proceedings of the 7th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Combining evidence for automatic web session identification
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Issues of context in information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A Framework for the Evaluation of Session Reconstruction Heuristics in Web-Usage Analysis
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Dynamic web log session identification with statistical language models
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology - Special issue: Webometrics
Associating search and navigation behavior through log analysis: Research Articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
How are we searching the world wide web?: a comparison of nine search engine transaction logs
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
Multitasking during web search sessions
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Special issue: Formal methods for information retrieval
The information seeking behaviour of the users of digital scholarly journals
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Web searcher interaction with the Dogpile.com metasearch engine
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Empirical Software Engineering
Empirical observations on the session timeout threshold
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Investigating the distributional property of the session workload
Journal of Web Engineering
Building environmentally sustainable information services: A green is research agenda
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Automatic Evaluation of Website Metrics and State
International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies
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Metrics derived from user visits or sessions provide a means of evaluating Websites and an important insight into online information seeking behaviour, the most important of them being the duration of sessions and the number of pages viewed in a session, a possible busyness indicator. However, the identification of session (termed often 'sessionization') is fraught with difficulty in that there is no way of determining from a transactional log file that a user has ended their session. No one logs out. Instead a session delimiter has to be applied and this is typically done on the basis of a standard period of inactivity. To date researchers have discussed the issue of a time out delimiter in terms of a single value and if a page view time exceeds the cut-off value the session is deemed to have ended. This approach assumes that page view time is a single distribution and that the cut-off value is one point on that distribution. The authors however argue that page time distribution is composed of a number of quite separate view time distributions because of the marked differences in view times between pages (abstract, contents page, full text). This implies that a number of timeout delimiters should be applied. Employing data from a study of the OhioLINK digital journal library, the authors demonstrate how the setting of a time out delimiter impacts on the estimate of page view time and the number of estimated session. Furthermore, they also show how a number of timeout delimiters might apply and they argue that this gives a better and more robust estimate of the number of sessions, session time and page view time compared to an application of a single timeout delimiter.