How to Use AWStats in cPanel
AWStats turns your raw logs into readable graphs: visitors, popular pages, referrers, search terms and bandwidth — all without adding any tracking code.
Step-by-step
- Open Metrics → AWStats in cPanel.
- Click your domain to open its statistics dashboard.
- Review the monthly summary at the top — unique visitors, number of visits, pages and bandwidth.
- Explore the sections down the left: visitors by country, hours, most-viewed pages, entry/exit pages and referrers.
- Check "Referrers" to see which sites and search engines send you traffic — see analysing referrers.
- Compare months using the month/year selector to spot trends and growth.
💡 Good to know
- AWStats counts server-side, so it includes bots; an analytics service counts real browsers — they will differ.
- For a quick visitor count, the cPanel Visitors tool is simpler.
- Stats update on a schedule, so today's data may be partial.