You can easily view your web site's statistics using one of the available statistics software package in cPanel. For our example, we are going to use the built-in Awstats program.
What is Awstats?
Awstats is a website analysis tool you can use to view the number of visitors to your website, their activity including page view, reports on keywords used to reach your website, and many other available reports that can help you monitor your website's overall activity. You can learn more about Awstats by visiting http://awstats.sourceforge.net/.
To get started on how to use Awstats, follow the directions below.
1. Login to cPanel.
2. When the page loads, click on the "Awstats" link in the Logs section.
3. Next, click on the magnifying glass icon in the "View" column for the domain you want to use when viewing web site statistics.
4. The Awstats program will load the current month's data. For example, if the month you are viewing your web site statistics is in December, the "Reported period" date will show as the following:
You can change the month and year by selecting the dates from the drop down menus, then click on the "OK" button to reload the web site statistical data for the month/year you selected.
5. After selecting your month and year, you can view the "Summary" section containing total sums of the following:
Unique visitors
Number of visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth
6. The next section shows you a Monthly history of your web site's statistical data including every month over the last 12 month period.
7. Continue on down the page to the days of the month chart:
There are many other statistical reports available such as the number of visits and page views per url on your web site, the types of operating systems visitors are using when visiting your web site, and search engine keywords used to find your web site. It even includes a report on how many links are coming from various search engines and links coming from other web sites.