Web Monitoring and Tracking Tools

-Dr.K.THIRUGNANASAMBANTHAN, Asst.Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

Web surfing, reading and trading on web are important in our life. After WWW booming, numerous people and Organizations possess their own site. To remain ahead, a few organizations are captivating their site for data servicing, such as company recent developments and simple data exchanging. Consequently modern web pages show up its updates frequently. Many websites give “fresh” information on web. Monitoring web changes manually is not possible. Web monitoring tools achieves reporting page updates to clients. Since establishing WWW, Intelligent monitoring tools are developed to watch websites.

CHANGEDETECTOR

ChangeDetector is a tool not only tracks changes but also outlines entire site, Whenever changes happen, the ChangeDetector identifies changes and reports to client. It means, the tool continuously watches websites for any writing or reading data in a page.

CHANGEDETECT

ChangeDetect is a proficient web checking tool. It is a replacement of prior tools. It spares client favored web pages for automatic mailing. Changes on are stamped with color codes for simple understanding. Page altering notices are too conveyed to client by ICQ (I for you), text message or indeed pager.

TOPBLEND

TOPBLEND has an excellent HTML differencing tool, identify changes by page comparison using HCS Heaviest Common Subsequence (HCS) algorithm. HTML parser and Jacobson-Vo algorithm are used in HCS problem.

WEBSPECTOR

It is a change tracking tool Webspector. It differs from server based checking tool.

WEBBEHOLDER

WebBeholder is a multi-web checking framework. It is created in Ishizuka-lab at Tokyo University. It has Service Provider Agent, a number of mobile agents and Mediator.

WEBCQ

WebCQ is a change detecting and delivering system. It monitors both static and dynamic changes. The changes on web pages are classified as sentinels to detect small change and reporting them to user.

INFOSPHERE PROJECT

Infosphere is a section of DARPA IT program. It is created by CaltonPu at Georgia Tech. It is focused on extracting new information from a group of sensors for personalized information delivery.