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Viewing Website Statistics in cPanel AWStats

When you have a website online, you may want to keep track of how many people are visiting your site. cPanel offers several built-in statistic reports, and AWStats is one of the more popular programs. AWStats updates every 24 hours and also instantly when you click the Update now link. The statistics report gives details about the amount of people coming to your website and other information such as:

1. Monthly history

2. Days of month

3. Days of week

4. Hours

5. Countries (top 25)

6. Hosts (top 25)

7. Authenticated users (top 10)

8. Robots/Spiders visitors (top 25)

9. Visits duration

10. Files types

11. Pages-URL (top 25)

12. Operating systems (top 10)

13. Browsers (top 10)

14. Connect to site from

15. Search key phrases (top 10)

16. Search keywords (top 25)

17. HTTP error codes

Stats may not begin working and updating until after the first 24 hours.

Access AWStats

To access AWStats for your site:

1. Log into cPanel.

2. In the Metrics section, click the AWStats icon.

3. Click the View icon next to the domain name for which you wish to view stats.

For help understanding your AWStats results, please refer to the official AWStats website:

Activate Web Statistics in WHM

VPS and Dedicated Server owners may need to activate web statistics in WHM. To do this:

1. Log into WHM.

2. Go to Server Configuration > Statistics Software Configuration.

3. Adjust the settings and save.

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