Today, Webmasters are more often concerned with analyzing website traffic statistics as it is essential for the success of your website. For example, the number of hits received, the look and the feel of Web sites often correlates directly with this bottom line. The more information and convenience your site provides and the better looking it is the more hits you generate.
Eukhost supply you with extensive web related data and traffic information and that is the most popular being Webalizer and AWstats. I feel this data is so useful that all of my statistics is pre-installed without a client having to request it. The Webalizer is a free web server log file analysis program that produces a variety of charts and graphs about who has visited your website.
The current stable version for the Webalizer is 2.01. You can simply found it in your cpanel under the “logs” and click into the “Webalizer Stats”. When the “Webalizer Stats” page loads, you will require selecting a domain which you have setup on your website in order to view the usage statistics for your specific website. The “Usage summary” shows files, hits, visits, and sites for the last 12 months. If your web site has not been online for the last 12 months, the Webalizer “Usage summary” will show only those months your website has been online.
The second chart indicates a “Summary by Month” for your web site has been online. This chart is useful as it provide more details about the actual numbers for hits, files, pages, visits, sites, etc as values instead of a graphic chart representation of the data itself.
Meantime AWStats is a very powerful analytical web tool that produces very good statistics. AWStats generates advanced web statistics, streaming statistics, ftp or mail server statistics graphically in the form of bars. In addition, I able to know the top usage of the numerous ways of users to access my website such as by keywords, key phrases, web browsers, operating system, miscellaneous and etc. No matter how complex the analysis is, the results displayed by the AWStats are just very fast and simple to understand.
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