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title: "Create stat parsing script to review website visits"
description: "In this article I'm going to show you how to create a stat parsing script, which will allow you to get a quick historical view of your website's daily visitor statistics. Sometimes it's nice to be..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/create-stat-parsing-script-to-review-website-visits/
date: 2013-03-06
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Website"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Create stat parsing script to review website visits

In this article I’m going to show you how to create a stat parsing script, which will allow you to get a quick historical view of your website’s daily visitor statistics.

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to see at a glance the overall level of traffic that your website receives. This can help you see if an average increase in your level of traffic might be the cause of recent resource usage problems you’ve been having.

## Create bash stat parsing script

Using the steps below I’ll show you how to create a bash stat parsing script that will go through the Webalizer logs stored on your account and put all of the information into a single HTML report for you.

1. [Login to your cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/).
2. Under the **Files** section, click on **File Manager**, then select **Home Directory** and click on **Go**.
3. At the top-left, click on **+ New File**, name the file **genSTATS** and click on **Create New File**.
4. Now right-click on the **genSTATS** file and click on **Edit**. Now enter in the following code, making sure to edit **user=userna5** with your own cPanel username: #!/bin/bash **user=userna5** logPath=/home/$user/tmp/webalizer/ rm -rf /home/$user/STATS.htm for log in `find $logPath -type f -name “usage*” -exec grep “daily_usage_” {} ; | sed ‘s#_# #g’ | awk ‘{print substr($4,1,6)}’ | sort -n`; do awk /”Daily usage for “/,/\/TABLE/ $logPath”usage_”$log”.html” | grep -v “IMG SRC” >> /home/$user/STATS.htm; done Then click on **Save Changes** at the top-right.

## Create PHP script to run stat script

Now that you’ve already created a bash script to compile your stats into a single HTML report, we can also create a PHP script that will allow you to run the bash script after providing a username and password, and view the compiled HTML report.

1. [Login to your cPanel](/support/edu/cpanel/how-to-log-into-cpanel/).
2. Under the **Files** section, click on **File Manager**, then select **Web Root** and click on **Go**.
3. At the top-left, click on **+ New File**, name the file **genSTATS.php** and click on **Create New File**.
4. Now right-click on the **genSTATS.php** file and click on **Edit**. Enter in the following code, making sure to edit the **/home/userna5/genSTATS** section with your own username. <?php $user = $_POST[‘user’]; $pass = $_POST[‘pass’]; if($user == “admin” && $pass == “pass”) { exec (“/bin/bash /home/**userna5**/genSTATS”); include(“../STATS.htm”); } if(isset($_POST)) {?> <form method=”POST” action=”genSTATS.php”> User <input type=”TEXT” name=”user”></input> Pass <input type=”TEXT” name=”pass”></input> <input type=”submit” name=”submit”></input> </form> <?} ?>
5. Now when you access the PHP script on your website **https://example.com/genSTATS.php**, you’ll be prompted with a username and password prompt, these need to match what is set in the PHP script for **$user == “admin”**, and **$pass = “pass”**. After filling in these credentials, click on **Submit** and you should then see the full stats report.[![gen stats fill in credentials click on submit](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/stats_gen-stats-fill-in-credentials-click-on-submit.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/stats_gen-stats-fill-in-credentials-click-on-submit.png) [![gen stats view report](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/stats_gen-stats-view-report.png)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/stats_gen-stats-view-report.png)

You should now know how to create a stat parsing script on your account, so that you can get a quick glance of your daily visits very easily.