A User-Centric Monitoring System to Enhance the Development of Web-Based Products

Abstract: Many websites and products rely heavily on consumers’ usage habits to maximize profit. Therefore, this project aims to aid product development by analyzing server traffic logs. The proposed solution is a monitoring system focusing on user analytics. The website for this monitoring system contains graphical presentations of statistics on user activity, browser usage, OS usage, browser version usage and OS version usage, most common requests, and the slowest requests over a chosen time interval. Statistical calculations are made in the backend code through connections to two databases. One database contains server traffic logs and is connected to the second database through indexing. Testing on the application proved proper functionality and fulfilled the requirements. The performance testing on the application showed effectiveness with relatively low latency for most statistics methods. This latency was further reduced by 50% using indexing.