Patent ID: 7594008

Claim:
A site monitoring method executed by a computer, the method comprising: transmitting Web data for a Web page included in a Web site to a client machine through a network in response to a request from said client machine; storing, into a storage, information about a browsing history of a user of said client machine; counting a number of repetitive browsing patterns that said user goes on to other Web pages from an original Web page and then returns to said original Web page without going to said other Web pages, as an accumulated repeating number, based on said information stored in said storage; specifying, when said accumulated counted repeating number of a repetitive browsing pattern exceeds a predetermined value, said repetitive browsing pattern as a losing pattern; storing, into said storage, information about a goal page that is finally displayed with intervention of displaying Web pages corresponding to said specified losing pattern, in correspondence with information about said losing pattern; storing, into said storage, an arrived ratio for each goal page in correspondence with said information about said goal pages; and transmitting, to said client machine, guidance information that guides said user to a goal page having highest arrived ratio when said accumulated counting repeating number counted in said counting step exceeds a predetermined value.