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Web / FTP
Statistics
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The Web / FTP Statistics area presents you with a wide variety of information about your web site, from the latest visitors to a detailed monthly summary of hits, as well as providing an error log. Use the Statistics tools to keep track of what pages are being visited most often, and where they are being referred from.
For more information about exactly what these web site statistics mean, refer to the following excellent articles:
Topics:
Analog
Awstats
Webalizer
Latest visitors
Bandwidth
Error Log
Analog
The Analog reporting tool presents a comprehensive coverage of web server statistics available for your web site using CPanel. Refer to the following links for more information about the Analog tool:
To use the Analog tool:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Analog link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Click on the month that you are interested in.
- You are now presented with the Web Server Statistics page for your web site. You can browse the report online, or print it for more detailed perusal offline. Take your time - there is a lot of information available.
Awstats
The Awstats reporting tool combines a comprehensive coverage of web server statistics available for your web site with very attractive reporting pages. Refer to the
Awstats home page for more information about Awstats.
To use Awstats:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Awstats link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Browse the results.
Webalizer
The Webalizer tool creates a graphical summary display of usage of your site. This is useful to give you a quick and clear overview of your web site activity. Refer to the
Webalizer home page for more information about Awstats.
To use Webalizer:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Webalizer link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Browse the results.
Latest Visitors
This quick tool lists the last 300 visitors that have visited your site in the last 24 hours. Note that visitors are defined as requests from servers, not individual people.
To view the most recent visitors:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Latest Visitors link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Browse the results. You can click on the Referrer link to open the referring site page, or click on the
URL link to open the file that was requested.
Bandwidth
The Bandwidth tool generates an overall summary of the amount of bandwidth that your site is using. This is generated from HTTP traffic (looking at your web site, downloading files, etc.) and possibly FTP traffic. However, this does not include any other type of traffic, the most notable of which is POP3 - e-mail. Depending on what files you send and receive through e-mail, this amount could be considerable. Contact your hosting administrator if you want to check how much bandwidth you are using.
To check how much bandwidth is being used:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Bandwidth link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Browse the results.
Error Log
The error log contains all HTTP errors that occur when visitors attempt to view your site, such as requested files not found, etc. The Error Log tool is a presentation of the last 300 entries in your error log. A central use of this tool is to locate suspicious server activity, such as attempted virus attacks. Please contact your hosting administrator if you have concerns about activity in your error logs.
To check your error log:
- Click on the Web / FTP Statistics icon in your Control
Panel.
- Click on the Error Log link in the Web/FTP Stats area.
- Browse the results.
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