Viewing Awstats Web Site Traffic Statistics

Awstats web site traffic statistics are specific to each domain you have setup on your web site. Follow the instructions below to get started.

Steps

1. When the “Awstats Stats” page loads, you will see a two-column “Select a Domain” table consisting of the following information:
   • Domain – This entry contains the domains you have setup on your web site.
   • View – Click on the magnifying glass icon to view the web site statistics for the associated domain using Awstats.
2. When the page loads, Awstats automatically loads the current month’s web site data. You can change the month and year by selecting the dates from the drop down menus, then click on the OK button to reload the web site statistical data for the month/year you selected.
3. After selecting your month and year, you can view the “Summary” section containing total sums of the following:
   • Unique visitors
   • Number of visits
   • Pages
   • Hits
   • Bandwidth
4. The next section shows you a Monthly history of your web site’s statistical data including every month over the last twelve month period. Continue on down the page to the days of the month chart. There are many other statistical reports available such as the number of visits and page views per url on your web site, the types of operating systems visitors are using when visiting your web site, and search engine keywords used to find your web site. It even includes a report on how many links are coming from various search engines and links coming from other web sites.

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There are three sections available on the “Raw Access Log” page:

• Configure Logs
• Download Current HTTP Access Logs
• Archived Raw Logs

Configure Logs

When the “Raw Access Log” page loads, the first two options include:

• Archive Logs in your home directory at the end of each month
• Remove the previous month’s archived logs from your home directory at the end of each month

Each of the above options has a check box next to it. You can check each one according to your own specific needs. Once you have checked or unchecked the check boxes in the above options, click on the Save button to save your settings.

Download Current HTTP Access Logs

This section includes a one-column table showing a list of domains associated with the web hosting account you are currently using to view cPanel. Click on any of the available domains to download the HTTP access logs.

Archived Raw Log

If there are any archived raw logs available, click on the one of the available links to download the raw log.

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Key Terms

• Request – This is each time someone asks to see any part of your site. To see your site, they will have to “request” a specific page or file.
• File – Any part of your site (an image, html page, pdf document, script, etc)
• Host – The individual computers that view your site. Each computer that views your site is treated as differently. Multiple users on one computer will be treated as one host.
• Data – Data is the contents of the files in your site. Anytime someone views a file, data is transferred and it will count towards your bandwidth usage.
• Referrer – A Referrer is the web site that linked to your site. It “referred” the visitor to your site.

Viewing The Analog Stats

The “Analog Stats” feature is specific to each domain you have setup on your web site. Follow the instructions below to get started.

Steps

1. When the “Analog Stats” page loads, you will see a two-column “Select a Domain” table consisting of the following information:
   • Domain – This entry contains the domains you have setup on your web site.
   • View – Click on the “magnifying glass” icon to view the Analog Stats for the associated Domain.
2. The first screen allows you to view statistics by month. Select a month that is currently available from the list provided. The months listed will go back twelve months. If the domain you are viewing has not been online for twelve months, the “Analog Stats” page will only show the months that have been available, assuming it’s less than twelve months.

There are several summaries and reports available once the page loads. Below is a list of available summaries and reports:

• General Summary
• Monthly Report
• Daily Summary
• Hourly Summary
• Domain Report
• Organization Report
• Redirected Referrer Report
• Failed Referrer Report
• Referring Site Report
• Browser Report
• Browser Summary
• Operating System Report
• Status Code Report
• File Size Report
• File Type Report
• Directory Report
• Request Report

Each of the above are also links provided at the top of each summary or report section. You can click on any of the links at anytime throughout the “Analog Stats” page.

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When the page loads and if there are any errors associated with your account, the following will be listed:

• Day/Month/Year/Time
• Client IP
• Error
• Location of page error occurred

For example, if a particular file does not exist, the following error will be shown:

[Wed Feb 14 21:41:43 2007] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] File does not exist: /home/user/public_html/404.shtml

The above indicates the file 404.shtml is not on your account. Most likely, the file was accessed somewhere on your web site and is now giving you an error.

Another example is if you do not have a robots.txt file on your account. First note that a robots.txt file is specific to search engine spiders. It’s okay if you do not have this file, but the system will generate an error if a spider is unable to locate a robots.txt file on your server.

[Wed Feb 14 17:06:46 2007] [error] [client 1.1.1.1] File does not exist: /home/user/public_html/robots.txt

The errors displayed in this report are to help you identify where problems may be occurring on your web site and/or web hosting account. If you need further assistance with any of the errors listed, please contact your web hosting provider.

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Monthly Bandwidth Limit

Today

The next section shows the amount of bandwidth or traffic used on your web site for the current day. The “Traffic for Today” graph shows the amount of bandwidth or traffic on the following protocols:

• Http – Web site page bandwidth usage.
• Pop – Mail bandwidth usage.
• Imap – Mail bandwidth usage.
• Ftp – File Transfer Protocol or amount of file upload and download bandwidth usage.
• Smtp – Outgoing mail bandwidth usage.
• All – Total bandwidth usage for Http, Pop, Imap, Ftp, and Smtp.

This Year

The next section shows the amount of bandwidth or traffic used on your web site for the current year. The “Traffic for CURRENT_YEAR” graph shows the amount of bandwidth or traffic on the following protocols:

• Http – Web site page bandwidth usage.
• Pop – Mail bandwidth usage.
• Imap – Mail bandwidth usage.
• Ftp – File Transfer Protocol or amount of file upload and download bandwidth usage.
• Smtp – Outgoing mail bandwidth usage.
• All – Total bandwidth usage for Http, Pop, Imap, Ftp, and Smtp.

The last three sections shows the amount of bandwidth used for the last three months including the current month. The two months prior to the current month displays a “circle” graphic that says “Click to Show.” Click on the circle graphic to display the amount of bandwidth used as displayed on a pie chart.

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