--- title: "AWStats: View Statistics About Your Website Traffic" description: "AWStats is a tool in your cPanel that creates graphical reports from your website's access logs. It's great for taking a quick look at things such as visits to your site per day and the number of..." url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/awstats-statistics-website-traffic/ date: 2011-08-25 modified: 2025-12-31 author: "Brad Markle" categories: ["Website"] type: post lang: en --- # AWStats: View Statistics About Your Website Traffic **AWStats** is a tool in your cPanel that creates graphical reports from your website’s access logs. It’s great for taking a quick look at things such as visits to your site per day and the number of pages viewed on your website. **Note:** AWStats analyzes [Apache logs](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/server/apache/view-request-type-url-and-response-codes-apache-access-log/) to generate your website statistics. **Due to the configuration of [NGINX](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/wordpress-nginx-reverse-proxy-caching/) servers, AWStats is unavailable.** Additionally, self-managed VPS and Bare Metal Servers do not include AWStats. ## How to Access AWStats 1. [Login to your cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/). 2. Under METRICS click the **AWStats** button.![Accessing AWSTATS in cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cpanel-awstats.png) 3. You will then see a listing of the domain names on your account. Click the **View** link with a magnifying glass icon next to the domain name you wish to see stats for.![Viewing AWSTATS in cPanel](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/cpanel-view-awstats.png) ## What Information Can I View in AWStats? - Top 25 Pages - Visit Duration - Number of visitors to your site each month - Number of visitors to your site per each day in a month - Number of hits to your site per country ## Reviewing Website Statistics ### Summary Report The AWStats summary view gives you a nice overview of the current report period, in this case Apr 2014. ![awstats summary](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-summary.png) #### AWStats Terms [![AWStats Monthly History Report](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/awstats-monthly-history-report-259x300.png)](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/awstats-monthly-history-report.png) Here are some of the common terms that you’ll run across when viewing your AWStats reports: - **Unique Visitors**: The unique amount of visitors you’ve had to your website. - **Number of Visits**: The number of visits to your website made by all unique visitors. - **Pages**: The number of full pages that have been viewed. - **Hits**: The total number of hits for resources such as images or JavaScript files. - **Bandwidth**: The total amount of bandwidth consumed serving all of the website requests. For a detailed explanation of these terms, please see the [AWStats documentation website](https://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_glossary.html). ### Monthly History The AWStats monthly history report gives you a look at how your traffic is trending on a monthly basis. ![awstats monthly history](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-monthly-history.png) ### Days of Month The AWStats days of month report lets you easily see what days during a month are your site’s busiest. ![awstats days of month](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-days-of-month.png) ### Days of Week The AWStats days of week report shows which days of the week bring the most traffic to your site. ![awstats days of week](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-days-of-week.png) ### Hours The AWStats hours report gives you a nice view of which hours during the day your site gets the most hits. ![awstats hours](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-hours.png) ### Countries The AWStats countries report lets you see what region of the world your visitors are coming from. ![awstats countries](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-countries.png) ### Hosts The AWStats hosts report shows the top IP addresses that have been visiting your website. If you notice any that have a far higher number of requests than others, you might want to think about [blocking unwanted users from your site using .htaccess](/support/website/block-unwanted-users-from-your-site-using-htaccess/). ![awstats hosts](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-hosts.png) ### Robots / Spiders The AWStats robots / spiders report shows non-human visits from search engines and other automated sources. If you notice higher than normal CPU usage, consider [temporarily blocking bad bots](/support/website/block-unwanted-users-from-your-site-using-htaccess/#block-bots) or [stopping search engines from crawling your website](/support/website/how-to-stop-search-engines-from-crawling-your-website/). ![awstats robots spiders](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-robots-spiders.png) ### File Type The AWStats file type report allows you to easily see what type of files are requested the most often. ![awstats file type](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-file-type.png) ### Pages-URL The AWStats pages URL report lets you easily see what pages are being requested the most. ![awstats pages url](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-pages-url.png) ### Operating-Systems This report lets you see what operating systems your visitors are using. ![awstats operating systems](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-operating-systems.png) ### Browsers The AWStats browsers report allows you to see what web browsers your site is being viewed with. ![awstats browsers](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-browsers.png) ### HTTP Status Codes The AWStats HTTP status codes report lets examine unusual HTTP responses that your website is giving. ![awstats http status codes](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-http-status-codes.png) You should notice that the 404 status is a link you can click on: ![awstats click on 404](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/images/stories/awstats/awstats-click-on-404.png) You can see that there were over 900 [404 errors](/support/website/error-numbers/404-error-page-not-found/) from bots trying to hit this website’s wp-login.php script. ## AWStats Troubleshooting Vital processes for keeping your website up, have a higher priority than statistic processing, so sometimes a server can get behind on its report calculations. If your stats have not updated in over **36 hours**, you can manually run them from cPanel. This guide will walk you through [manually updating your AWStats through cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/update-awstats/).