Metrics
Metrics
Visitors
This interface displays detailed information about the 1,000 most recent visits to your website. This information helps you to learn about your audience and monitor frequent visitors so that you can adjust your website content to fit their needs. It also helps you locate and fix errors, such as missing pages or broken links.
View latest visitor details
To view your latest visitor details,
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Visitors) from Metrics section.
3 – Click the magnifying glass icon for that domain. By default, the interface displays the following information:
Detail – Description
IP – The visitors’ IP address.
URL – The specific URL that the visitor accessed.
Time – The time when the visitor accessed your website.
Size – The amount of data that the server sent to the visitor for this resource.
Referring URL – The web address from which the visitor navigated to the resource.
User Agent – The browser that the visitor used to access your website.
Additional data
Click the gear icon to choose to display the following additional data:
Status – The HTTP code indicates whether the resource loaded successfully or resulted in an error.
Method – The request-response between the client and server (for example, GET or POST).
Protocol – The version of HTTP that the server used to serve the resource to the visitor (for example, 1.1).
To search for additional records, enter your search criteria in the Search text box.
Video: https://youtu.be/MMyw7PJNcSY
Errors
Error details
The interface displays up to 300 of the most recent entries in Apache’s error logs, in reverse chronological order.
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Errors) from Metrics section.
Additional information
The server handles the configuration of the log files. Contact your system administrator to change the level of information in the log files.
Video: https://youtu.be/MMyw7PJNcSY
Bandwidth
Bandwidth
The Bandwidth interface displays bandwidth usage information in several sets of graphs. Each graph contains information about bandwidth usage over a specific period of time.
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Bandwidth) from Metrics section.
3 – The graphs display bandwidth information in six categories:
• Http — Web traffic.
• Pop3 — Email that your accounts received.
• Imap — Email that your accounts received.
• Ftp — File transfers.
• Smtp — Email that your accounts sent.
• All
This information allows you to monitor the heaviest traffic times for your website, and helps you to decide whether to purchase additional bandwidth
Video: https://youtu.be/KVH1XsCt49Y
Raw Access
Raw Access
Raw access logs are text files that contain information about your website’s visitors and the content on your website that they have accessed. This feature allows you to download a zipped version of your access log.
Configure Logs
This section allows you to configure cPanel to automatically archive logs and when to automatically delete them.
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Raw Access) from Metrics section.
• Select the Archive logs in your home directory at the end of each stats run box to save archived logs into the /home directory each time the system processes your website’s statistics.
• Select the Remove the previous month’s archived logs from your home directory at the end of each month box to remove the previous month’s logs at the end of each month.
Click Save to store your changes.
Download and View Your Raw Access Logs
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Raw Access) from Metrics section.
This section lists the domains on your account, as well as the log information.
• Domain — A list of the domains on your account. Click the desired link to download that domain’s raw access log:
• Last Update — The date of the most recent update to the log file.
• Disk Usage — The amount of disk space that the log files uses.
• Linked Domains — A list of the domains that are parked on top of the domain.
Archived Raw Logs
This section lists the archived logs that are contained in your /home directory.
• Click the filename to download an archived log.
• You can also view the log file through the command line in your /home/username directory. Use your preferred text editor to open the access-logs file.1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Raw Access) from Metrics section.
This section lists the archived logs that are contained in your /home directory.
• Click the filename to download an archived log.
• You can also view the log file through the command line in your /home/username directory. Use your preferred text editor to open the access-logs file.
Awstats
Awstats
The Awstats interface displays traffic statistics from the Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) software, which compiles information about how users access your website.
View AWStats data
To view AWStats traffic statistics for a domain,
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Awstats) from Metrics section.
3 – Click View for the domain that you wish to view. A new interface will appear that displays the AWStats traffic statistics for that domain.
AWStats displays the following details about your website’s visitors:
- Monthly, daily, and hourly averages in graphs and tables.
- The links through which visitors access your website.
- HTTP codes.
- Operating systems.
- Browser information.
- Locales of origin.
Analog Stats
Analog Stats
The Analog Stats interface allows you to access data from the Analog traffic statistics software. Analog compiles traffic statistics for your domain, and organizes the data by month so that it is easy for you to manage and interpret. The software also presents the data for each month in graphs to show additional categories.
View Analog Stats
To view Analog’s statistics for a domain, perform the following steps:
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Analog Stats) from Metrics section.
3 – Click View for the domain that you wish to view. A new browser tab that lists each month for which Analog contains traffic statistics will appear.
4 – Select the month for which you wish to view traffic statistics. The interface will display the Analog software statistics for that month.
Webalizer
Webalizer
The Webalizer interface displays traffic statistics from the Webalizer statistics program.
View your Webalizer statistics
To view Webalizer statistics,
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Webalizer) from Metrics section.
3 – Click View for the domain that you wish to view. A new interface will appear and display a graph and a summary of the Webalizer traffic statistics for that domain.
To view detailed monthly statistics, click that month’s link. A new interface will appear and display charts and tables with the following information:
• Daily and hourly statistics in graphs and tables.
• The links through which visitors access your website.
• HTTP codes.
• Operating systems.
• Browser information.
• Countries of origin.
Webalizer FTP
Webalizer FTP
The Webalizer interface displays traffic statistics from the Webalizer statistics program.
View your Webalizer statistics
To view Webalizer statistics for a domain,
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Webalizer FTP) from Metrics section.
3 – Click View next to the domain that you wish to view. A new interface will appear that displays a graph and a summary of the Webalizer traffic statistics for that domain.
To view detailed statistics for a month, click that month’s link. A new interface will appear that displays charts and tables with the following information:
• Daily and hourly statistics in graphs and tables.
• The links through which visitors access your website.
• HTTP codes.
• Operating systems
• Browser information.
• Countries of origin.
Metrics Editor
Metrics Editor
This interface allows you to select metrics programs to process your log files and provide traffic analysis for your account’s domains.
Select programs
To select which metrics to use, perform the following steps:
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (Metrics Editor) from Metrics section.
3 – For each domain on your account, select the checkbox for each metrics program that you wish to use. You can select from the following programs:
• Webalizer
• Analog Stats
• AWStats
4 – Click Save.
CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage
CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage
The CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage is a resource monitoring tool that lets you view detailed information about problematic processes and database queries running on your account. The information can then help you determine why a resource limit was triggered.
Depending on your account’s resource usage, you may see the following summary displays on the CPU and Concurrent Connection’s Resource Usage Overview page:
* There has been no activity on your site within the past 24 hours:
If you see this message, your account did not trigger any limits within the past 24 hours.
* Your site has been limited within the past 24 hours:
If you see this message, your account triggered at least one resource limit within the past 24 hours. cPanel displays additional information about which resource(s) triggered the limit.
* Your site might hit resource limits soon:
This message is a warning that your account may exceed resource limit in the near future. cPanel displays additional information about which resource is at risk of exceeding a limit.
1 – Open cPanel (yourdomain/cpanel).
2 – Click on (CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage) from Metrics section.
* Click on Details for more information.
How resources are utilized will be displayed in the form of graphs and tabular data.
• CPU Usage
• Virtual Memory Usage
• Physical Memory Usage
• Input/Output Usage
• Io operations
• Entry Processes
• Processes
• Faults
* On the Resources Usage Overview page, Click on Snapshots.
1 – Select the date you want to view from the calendar.
2 – From the Choose snapshot drop-down menu, select the snapshot for the specific time you want to view.
3 – You can use the Previous snapshot and Next snapshot to move to the previous or next snapshot(s).