Patent ID: 6963874

Claim:
A web-site performance analysis system comprising: a register configured to contain data relative to visits to a plurality of web-pages that are associated with a web-site, the data including: an identification of traversals corresponding to each visit of the visits to the plurality of web-pages, the identification of traversals having one of (i) an identification of an incoming link from which each visit originated and (ii) an identification of an outgoing link to which the visit terminated; a time duration measure corresponding to each visit; and a histogram of the identified transversals formed from a plurality of counters arranged such that a traversal from a first web-page of the plurality of web-pages to a second web-page of the plurality of web-pages effects a decrement of a first counter of the plurality of counters, and an increment of a second counter of the plurality of counters; a database configured to provide efficient long-term storage of the data; and a performance analysis modifier block, operably coupled to the database and register, that is configured to periodically: (i) modify the data in the based on the transversals and time duration measures corresponding to the visits, ii) transfer the data from the register to the database, (iii) reset the register, and produce performance measures corresponding to each web-page of the plurality of web-pages based on the data in the database and the register.