View your website metrics using AWstats

Definitions

AWstats is free software on your hosting account that provides metrics about your website or app, including traffic, popular pages and visitor locations.

Before you start

✅ AWstats provides metrics for any domain name pointed and connected to your hosting account.

ℹ️ AWstats does not display metrics in real-time as it updates every 24 hours.

⚠️ For real-time metrics with advanced analytics and reporting, you should consider using Google Analytics, which can be easily integrated into a WordPress site with the free Site Kit by Google plugin.

Step by step

1. Log in to your hosting control panel

2. Click on the Stats / Error Logs button

3. Find your domain name and click directly on it. Note: Make sure to click directly on your domain.

4. The next page will display AWstats for your domain. You can sort reporting periods by month, day, and hour. Key data, including unique visitors and number of visits, is prominently summarized at the top.

Here is a general overview of key data points provided by AWstats:

• Unique visitors represent the number of distinct users who have viewed your website during a specific period, regardless of how many times they visited.

• Number of visits indicates how many times your website was accessed by users, with multiple visits possible from the same user.

• Pages refer to the total number of individual web pages viewed by visitors, giving insight into your website’s effectiveness.

• Hits represent the total number of requests made to the server during a visit, including loading images, scripts, and other elements of a webpage.

• Bandwidth measures the total amount of data transferred from your website to visitors, indicating how much bandwidth resources were used to serve your website online.

5. You can continue to scroll through the AWstats report page to get summaries on a range of metrics collected for your domain during the selected time range.