how to see what users want?

Hi,

I have a sports ecommerce site with 21 different sports. I'd like to evaluate the apache logs to assess how each user looks around the site. I'd like to know if a person visitors page A, then page B, then page A, and then C...or if there is a different pattern in their visits.

Such a tool is probably not out there, or is very expensive. I'm looking for a free solution, so I'd be fine looking through the logs with just my eyes. I'm thinking about writing a simple parsing program that would collect the log records and organize by user IPs. Then, I can assign different parameter values to represent sport categories, and thus show me what they are visiting.

Does anyone know of such a parsing tool? Free is preferred.

Thanks.

-Ben

Clicktracks will do what you want with a lot of interpretation and tweaking...not free.

Here's an idea....why don't you ask your customers what they want?