Log Analysis - A Brief Overview
http://slis-two.lis.fsu.edu/~cmcclure/logs.html

Rubin, Jeffrey
Florida State University
1996

Abstract:

Log files are text files which can range in size from 1KB to 100MB, depending on the traffic at a given a web site. Webmeisters measure traffic by the number of hits or accesses their site receives in a duration of time.