When you have a website online, you may want to keep track of how many people are visiting it. cPanel offers several built-in statistical reports and AWStats is one of the most popular programs. AWStats is updated every 24 hours and also instantly when you click the Update Now link. The statistics report provides details about the number of people visiting your website and other information such as:
- Monthly history
- Days of the month
- Days of the week
- Hours
- Countries (top 25)
- Hosts (top 25)
- Authenticated users (top 10)
- Visitors from bots / spiders (top 25)
- Duration of visits
- File types
- URL-pages (top 25)
- Operating systems (top 10)
- Browsers (top 10)
- Connecting to the site from
- Search key phrases (top 10)
- Search keywords (top 25)
- HTTP error codes
- Statistics may not start working or updating until after the first 24 hours.
Note: Statistics cannot be accessed on a shared or reseller cPanel with more than 100 domain entries, including subdomains, add-on domains and parked domains. If you have many websites on a single cPanel, we recommend that you use Google Analytics or another third-party statistics solution as an alternative.
Accessing AWStats
To access AWStats for your site:
- Log in to cPanel.
- In the Metrics section, click the AWStats icon.
- Click the View icon next to the domain name whose statistics you want to view.
For help understanding AWStats results, please refer to the official AWStats website:
- AWStats Glossary
Enabling Web Stats in WHM
VPS and dedicated server owners may need to enable web statistics in WHM. To do this:
- Log in to WHM.
- Go to Server Settings > Statistics Software Settings .
- Adjust the settings and save.
