  As the information contained within the web is increasing day by day,
organizing this information could be a necessary requirement.The data mining
process is to extract information from a data set and transform it into an
understandable structure for further use. Classification of web page content is
essential to many tasks in web information retrieval such as maintaining web
directories and focused crawling.The uncontrolled type of nature of web content
presents additional challenges to web page classification as compared to the
traditional text classification, but the interconnected nature of hypertext
also provides features that can assist the process. In this paper the web
classification is discussed in detail and its importance in field of data
mining is explored.
