JP2003196198A - Link information display method and link information display device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique for displaying the access state of a link designation so that the relation with the description position of the link designation in a Web page can be grasped. <P>SOLUTION: This method for forming a screen display file containing the information related to the link designation in the Web page by a computer comprises acquiring the source file of the Web page; detecting a link designation file in the source file; acquiring access log information data corresponding to the link designation from an access log information file; and burying the information related to the access log information data in the front or rear of a link text corresponding to the link designation file in the source file. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for displaying the access status of a link destination on a Web page on the Web page.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional method of displaying the access status to a link destination of a Web page will be described with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 7 (a) is an example of a web page display in the prior art, and FIG. 7 (b) is an ht of that web page.
It is an example of a ml source file. Service1.html and service2.html in the Web page are link destination file names. Further, in the present specification, the text in the range of transition to the link destination by clicking on the screen is referred to as link text. For example, "link to service 1" is link text.

Conventional access status display when a user accesses this page and a link destination within the page is performed as follows.

As shown in FIG. 8A, each time a page is accessed, its log is recorded in the Web server or the like.
Then, a log tabulation result is obtained by tabulating the logs as shown in FIG. 8B, for example. Normally, only the site operator can view this aggregated result.

That is, in the prior art, the access status of the link destination in the Web page is grasped by totaling the access logs recording the access status of the link destination and displaying it.

[0007]

However, when the access status of the link destination is grasped by the above method, although the access status of each link destination can be grasped, the link destination on the original Web page can be grasped. The corresponding link text could not be immediately grasped, and the access status of the link description in the original Web page could not be grasped at a glance.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and provides a technique for displaying the access status of a link destination so that the relationship with the description position of the link destination in the Web page can be understood. To aim.

[0009]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention can be configured as follows.

The invention according to claim 1 is a method for a computer to create a file for screen display including information about a link destination in a web page, the computer obtaining a source file of the web page, A step of the computer detecting a link destination file in the source file;
Acquiring access log information data corresponding to the link destination from the access log information file, and embedding information regarding the access log information data before or after the link text corresponding to the link destination file in the source file. .

According to the present invention, a Web page can be displayed in a form including the number of accesses to link destinations, and it is possible to know at a glance how a link destination is used due to the difference in the layout of homepages. become able to.
The access log information file is, for example, an access log total file.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the information regarding the access log information data is the number of accesses to the link destination, and the method is that the computer accesses the link destination. The method further comprises the step of embedding a script for displaying a graph showing the number transition in the source file as a link destination of the access count.

According to the present invention, it is possible to view a graph of transition of the number of accesses by clicking the number of accesses on the terminal displaying the screen by the screen display file.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, the method further comprises a step of rewriting the file name of the detected link destination file by a computer.

According to the present invention, by rewriting the file name of the file processed by the link information display server, it becomes possible to display the information regarding the link destination in the page of the link destination.

The invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that the computer connected to the network transmits the screen display file created by the method according to claim 1 to the terminal in response to the access from the terminal. Is the method.

According to the present invention, a home page containing information about a link destination can be browsed by a terminal.

According to a fifth aspect of the invention, a computer connected to the network transmits the screen display file created by the method according to the second aspect to the terminal in response to the access from the terminal, and the terminal displays the file. In the method, when the graph is displayed, if a predetermined instruction is given to the graph in the terminal, the data that is the basis of the graph is saved in the terminal. .

According to the present invention, the transition of the number of accesses can be easily grasped at the terminal.

The invention described in claims 6 to 9 is an apparatus suitable for carrying out the above method, and exhibits substantially the same effects as the invention of the above method. The invention described in claims 10 to 12 is a program suitable for executing the process in the device.

[0021]

1 shows the configuration of a link information display system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the link information display system of the present invention includes a web server 1 that holds web page data, a log aggregation server 2 that aggregates access logs from the web server 1,
It has a link information display server 3 that displays the link information by embedding the number of accesses in the original Web page,
Each server is connected to the network 4 such as the Internet. When the user terminal 5 accesses the link information display server 3, the We
Display page b. The Web server 1 and the log totaling server 2 can also be configured as one server. Further, the above three servers can be configured by one server, or the log totaling server 2 and the link information display server 3 can be configured by one server.

FIG. 2 shows a display example of a screen on the user terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention. By accessing the link information display server, the screen 10 in which the number of accesses is embedded in the screen of the original Web page is displayed. On the screen 10, by clicking the access number, a graph 11 of the access status is displayed. Also,
By clicking a predetermined portion of the graph 11, it is possible to display the graph 12 with a different display period of the graph.

By clicking on the graph,
The access status data as shown in the screen 13 can be saved on the terminal in a format such as csv. Furthermore, by clicking the link destination, page 1 of the link destination
Even with 4, it is possible to display a page including the number of accesses.

Next, the operation of the link information display system for displaying the above screen will be described.

First, the outline of the operation will be described with reference to FIG.

In the link information display system of the present invention, the link information display server 3 acquires from the Web server 1 and the log totaling server 2 the html source file that is the source of the Web page and the log totaling file related to the Web page. , The data such as the number of accesses in the log totalization file is embedded in the html source file.
The user can browse a normal web page by accessing the web server 1, and can browse the web page in which the number of accesses is embedded by accessing the link information display server.

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of the above processing in the link information display server. The right side of the flow of FIG. 4 shows how the data is embedded in the html source file by taking the html source file (page1) shown in FIG. 7 as an example. Further, as the log totalization file used here, the example shown in FIG. 8 is used. The following processing in the link information display server 3 is executed by the program in the link information display server 3.

In FIG. 4, first, the link information display server 3 downloads the html source file from the Web server and the log tabulation file from the log tabulation server 2 (step 1). It is not necessary to download the html source file and the log totaling file at the same time. For example, the html source file can be downloaded every time there is a change, and the log totaling file can be downloaded once a day.

The link information display server 3 uses html.
How to get the source file and log summary file
Not limited to the above-mentioned method of downloading, various methods can be adopted. For example, the Web server 1 and the log totaling server 2 may push the html source file and the log totaling file to the link information display server 3.

Next, the link destination file in the html source file is detected (step 2). In the example of page1, service1.html is detected first. Next, the link information display server 3 acquires the access count of the link destination from the log totalization file (step 3), and inserts the log numeric value immediately before the link text (step 4). In this case, refer to the log aggregation file in Figure 8 and see service1.html
1500, which is the number of times of access, is inserted and inserted immediately before the link text "link to service 1".

Then, a graph display script (for example, javascript) is inserted as a link destination of the log value (step 5), and the link destination file name is rewritten as necessary (step 6). That is, the original file name of the link destination is rewritten to the file name of the file on which the log information or the like is embedded in the link information display server. After that, the next link is detected and the same processing is performed.

Then, all the links are detected (step 7), and the processing is completed to complete the html file for display. In the above process, when links are set to the same link destination file from multiple locations, the number of accesses for each link is changed by changing the link description method at each location using redirect CGI or query. It is possible to count to.

Redirect CGI and query are techniques used in existing log aggregation to aggregate logs by distinguishing access to the same link destination. That is, in the case of redirect CGI, a different redirect C
How to distinguish access by using GI and query? Differentiate the access by adding a different description after the.

In FIG. 5A, h using the redirect CGI
An example of the html source is shown, and an example of the html source using the query is shown in FIG. Both are displayed on the terminal screen as shown in FIG. 5C, and page1.html is also displayed by clicking any of the link texts on the screen.
Then, as shown in FIG. 5D, access to the same link destination is distinguished and recorded as a log.

By displaying the html file for display, the user can measure the effect of the Web page, make a presentation, and study the layout. When displaying the html file for display, images, style sheets, etc. are read from the original Web page.

It is possible to embed not only the number of accesses as described above but also various kinds of information in the html file for display. For example, when the number of accesses increases by a predetermined number as compared with the data of the previous day, a predetermined image can be displayed next to the link text.
Also, the click rate and the like can be displayed.

FIG. 6 shows a flow chart when a number is clicked to graph the access status. This processing is also performed by the program in the link information display server 3.

When the user clicks a number on the screen (step 11), the past access number of the URL is read from the log totalization file (step 12) and graphed (step 13). After that, it is checked whether or not the graph is clicked (step 14), and if there is a click, the data used for drawing the graph is “date”,
It can be output to a file in the order of “comma” and “numerical value” and downloaded to the user's terminal (step 1
5).

The configuration shown in FIG. 1 is suitable for the home page operator to consider the planning and layout of his or her home page. That is, a general user accesses the Web server 1, and a homepage operator accesses the link information display server 3 to grasp the usage status of links in the homepage, which is useful for changing the design of the homepage. In the hosting service that hosts the Web server, the user of the hosting service is allowed to access the display html file in the link information display server 3, or
By providing the display html file, it becomes possible to provide the service to the user of the hosting service in a form that makes it easy to see the link destination access status on the home page.

Further, h processed by the link information display server
By returning the html source file to the Web server, it becomes possible to provide a home page with access information to general users.

Further, in the configuration without the link information display server 3, if the user terminal is equipped with the program for performing the processing shown in FIGS. 4 and 6, the user obtains the log totalization file to display the log aggregation file shown in FIG. Will be able to display the screen.

The pregram used in the processing of the present invention can be stored in a recording medium such as a CD-ROM and distributed, or can be distributed by downloading from a computer.

The present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications and applications are possible within the scope of the claims.

[0044]

As described above, according to the present invention, We
Since the visual layout and the access information on the page b are visualized, it is possible to easily understand how the link destination is used due to the difference in layout.

By periodically executing the rewriting process of the html source file, it becomes possible to always grasp the latest access status. Further, by comparing the screen of the past access status with the latest screen, it is possible to measure the effect of the renewal of the homepage. Further, since it is not necessary to modify the html source file displaying the original Web display, the access status can be easily grasped and the homepage can be evaluated in a short period of time. Then, it becomes possible to effectively make design changes such as measuring the correlation between the layout and the number of clicks and displaying frequently used links on the screen.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a link information display system in an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of a screen on a user terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the outline of the operation of the link information display system.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of processing in a link information display server.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a method of separately counting accesses to the same link destination from different positions on a Web page.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart in the case of graphing an access status.

FIG. 7: Web page and its htm in conventional technology
It is a figure which shows the example of a l source file.

FIG. 8 is a diagram for explaining access log aggregation in the conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Web server 2 Log aggregation server 3 Link information display server 4 network 5 user terminals 10-14 Display screen example

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Toko Murai             1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Nutty Communications Inc.             Inside the company (72) Inventor Hideo Takei             1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Nutty Communications Inc.             Inside the company (72) Inventor Nobuaki Wada             1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Nutty Communications Inc.             Inside the company (72) Inventor Hideaki Gouda             1-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Nutty Communications Inc.             Inside the company F term (reference) 5B075 PQ14 PQ26 PQ42 PR03                 5B082 HA00 HA08                 5E501 AA01 AB15 BA06 EA14 EB15                       FA06

Claims (12)

[Claims] 1. A method for a computer to create a screen display file including information about a link destination in a web page, the method comprising the steps of: the computer acquiring a source file of the web page; A step of detecting a link destination file in the computer, the computer acquires access log information data corresponding to the link destination from the access log information file, and precedes or follows the link text corresponding to the link destination file in the source file. Embedding information about the access log information data in the. 2. The information relating to the access log information data is the number of accesses to the link destination, and the method includes a script for causing a computer to display a graph showing a transition of the number of accesses to the link destination. The method according to claim 1, further comprising embedding in the source file as a link destination of an access number. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of a computer rewriting the file name of the detected linked file. 4. A method for transmitting a screen display file created by the method according to claim 1 to a terminal connected to a computer connected to a network, in response to the access from the terminal. 5. The screen display file created by the method according to claim 2, the computer connected to the network transmits to the terminal in response to the access from the terminal, and the graph is displayed on the terminal. When there is a predetermined instruction to the graph in the terminal while the terminal is present, the data that is the basis of the graph is stored in the terminal. 6. An apparatus for creating a screen display file including information about a link destination in a Web page, a means for acquiring a source file of the Web page, and detecting a link destination file in the source file. Means for obtaining access log information data corresponding to the link destination from the access log information file, and embedding information regarding the access log information data before or after the link text corresponding to the link destination file in the source file And a device. 7. The information regarding the access log information data is the number of accesses to the link destination, and the apparatus includes a script for displaying a graph showing a transition of the number of accesses to the link destination, The apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising means for embedding in the source file as a link destination. 8. The device according to claim 6, further comprising means for rewriting a file name of the detected link destination file. 9. An apparatus comprising: a device for transmitting a screen display file created by the apparatus according to claim 6 to the terminal in response to an access from the terminal. 10. A program for causing a computer to execute a process of creating a screen display file including information on a link destination in a web page, the procedure of acquiring the source file of the web page, A procedure for detecting a link destination file, and obtaining access log information data corresponding to the link destination from the access log information file, the access log information before or after the link text corresponding to the link destination file in the source file. A program that causes a computer to perform procedures for embedding information about data. 11. The information relating to the access log information data is the number of accesses to the link destination, and the program includes a script for displaying a graph showing a transition of the number of accesses to the link destination. The program according to claim 10, further causing a computer to execute a procedure of embedding in the source file as a link destination. 12. The program according to claim 10, further causing the computer to execute a procedure of rewriting the file name of the detected link destination file.