Abstract:
WebShow is a web analytics tool made from scratch by a group of students from
EME College, NUST .The tool is developed using Python programming language and
the back end data base is MySQL. Interface is browser based and is developed in
HTML and JavaScript. WebShow provide many options to the user to dig in and
analyze their web usage data.
Users can do all sorts of analysis on their history including their web usage graphs,
what categories of web are the mostly visiting, their category wise usage graph. It can
also be used by network analysts to analyze the web traffic on their network and to
some extent, control the traffic on their network. The interface is designed in HTML
and JavaScript which is very user friendly and allows the users to visualize their web
usage data using beautiful graphs which are generated using a JavaScript library
called D3.
WebShow is also a platform on which users can build their own web analytics
applications. Web show can provide them with basic data and the user can build their
own web analytics tools on top of it. The best part of WebShow is that it is completely
developed using open source tools and any one can extend its functionalities with
ease.
