Web Usage (AWSTATS) Report Results

The Web Usage report opens with the name of the report and the date displayed at the upper left along with graphical information and tables. Because of the length and complexity of the report, a navigation list displays along the left side of the page. You can either scroll down to the various graphs and information for each main topic in the navigation list using the scroll bars or click a topic in the navigation list to automatically scroll to it.

The small folder icons designate subtopic reports that you can click to display more detail. For example, the summary reports show the ten most popular hosts that access your site, but you can click the Full List subtopic folder to display the list of all hosts that accessed your site.

Along the top of the page is the Last Update time stamp that shows the day, month, year, and time when AWSTATS analyzed your site Web logs to generate this report. You can click the Reported Period drop-down menus and then the OK button to run the log analysis on a different date.

The report information displays in several sections broken down by number of unique visitors to your site, visits, pages visited, and content and image files downloaded to render the pages (referred to as hits) as well as the bandwidth used. You can view a summary that rolls up all information for the time period requested as well as by sections that show this information when it occurred, by whom, and how the connection was made.

In addition to a summary that shows important statistics rolled up, the following sections display in the report:

  • When sections that show the actual monthly and daily statistics as well as an average hourly detail

  • When sections that show the actual monthly and daily statistics as well as an average hourly detail

  • Who sections that show the top ten countries, host server IP addresses, and robot or spider application that connected to your site

  • Duration, or amount of time, visitors stayed connected to your site, the type of files requested by the hits,

  • Top ten viewed pages (identified by URL) on your site, how many times they were viewed and how much bandwidth the page required, as well as the number of times each page was the entry point into your site and the exit point from it

  • Top ten operating systems most frequently used by the visitor computers that requested hits on your site and the percentage that each operating system represents of the total

  • Top ten Web browsers most frequently used by site visitors to navigate your site, if the browser was a grabber application, the hits the browsers made, and the percentage that each browser represents of the total

  • Referrer sections that show how visitors connected to your site and the number of pages displayed by the originating connection, the percentage of the total each originating connection represents, as well as the number and percentage of hits made by each originating connection

  • HTTP Status Codes section that shows the number and message of Web page errors displayed to site visitors if a problem occurred while they accessed your site

  • Pages Not Found section that shows the number of times the 404 Pages Not Found status code displayed to your site visitors