Analog WebStats - cPanel Tutorial Ch.11
For anyone who happens to use one or more sites, it is very crucial to remain aware of just how much traffic you are generating. This is a great marketing strategy which allows you to maintain, or even increase the amount of traffic to your site. Frequently analyzing the statistics of your website should be a routine for each and every webmaster looking to make their site flourish. You will not only be able to monitor your reception from the public, but learn how your site is ranked within the search engines as well.
Several web stat programs are available on the net. These applications can be implemented to your web hosting server as an add-on. Many of them come equipped with great features, with prices ranging from low to very expensive. The surprising side to it all is that most hosting servers now come available with free web statistic applications.
If your hosting server includes the cPanel, more than likely you have a few web stat programs already built into the system. cPanel was created to make the administrative functions of your site simple and the Analog web stats is just another part of its design.
Most web hosting servers will come equipped with three different types of web stat applications; Analog, Webalizer and Awstats.
HOW TO FIND ANALOG IN CPANEL
This feature works as a great web stat application. Accessing the Analog web stats tool in your cPanel is a fairly easy process. After you have accessed the application here are a few items you will find below:
The Analog feature works as a great web stat application and reporting tool. Here are the many statistics you will be able to view via the Analog webstat:
- Successful requests
- Average successful requests per day
- Average successful requests for pages per day
- Failed requests
- Redirected requests
- Distinct files requested
- Distinct hosts served
- Corrupt logfile lines
- Data transferred
- Average date transferred per day
As a general summary, this details some of the most important statistics concerning the data being analyzed for your website. The key areas would be number of requests, the number of requests for pages per day, the number of distinct hosts and your amount of data transferred. Remember that just one visitor can display several requests by making repeat views of pages or accessing your images and links.
Here is defining breakdown of other web stats you will find in Analog:
- Host Reports: Lists each computer that has downloaded files from your server
- Domain Reports: Lists countries in which those computers are located
- Host Redirection and Host Failure Report: Lists all computers that were redirected or met with errors
- Request Report - List files that were downloaded from the server
- Directory Report - Lists the directories from which the files originated
- File Type Report - Lists the extensions of the files downloaded
- Processing Time Report - Lists time taken to serve every file
- Failure Report - Lists all filenames that caused an error
- Referrer Report- Lists the pages linked to your files and pages linked to images
- Referring Site Report - Lists which servers the referrers came from
- Redirected Referrer Report - Lists those referrers that caused redirections
Many more statistical reports can be viewed with the Analog function of your cPanel. These reports can be managed by simply checking on or off beside them. Web stats are a very important part of maintaining your website, a task made much simpler with the Analog feature.
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