Table 3.
Features explored within unsupervised machine learning
| Feature name | Data type | Feature description |
|---|---|---|
| Accreditations | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Apprenticeship | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Bounces | Binary | Flags if the session was a single page visit only |
| Contact-us | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Courses | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Customised-engineering-trading | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| daysSinceLastSession | Numeric | The number of days a user is returning to the website |
| Distance | Numeric | The Euclidean distance between the user’s co-ordinates and the company’s co-ordinates (owner of the website) |
| Engineering-academic-studies | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Engineering-Trade | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Hits | Numeric | Represents any action on a webpage that results in data being sent to Google Analytics (such as page clicks, etc.) |
| Home | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| OrganicSearches | Binary | Flag to indicate if the user organically constructed a search that resulted in landing onto the webpage (a web link was not clicked) |
| Pageviews | Numeric | The number of instances a page was loaded (or reloaded) |
| sessionCount | Numeric | An indicator of the nth time the user has accessed the website |
| SessionDuration | Numeric | The duration of the session (seconds) |
| Short-courses-skilled-programmes | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| Trade-test-arpl | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |
| University-of-technology-uot | Numeric | Count of visits the user made to this page within each session |