{"id":6451,"date":"2025-04-29T22:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainehost.com\/?p=6451---830da394-6ef4-46f5-9c00-d88364d4da7c"},"modified":"2025-06-30T08:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:11:56","slug":"top-5-ways-how-to-use-awstats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/news\/top-5-ways-how-to-use-awstats\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 ways how to use AWstats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-67650 size-full aligncenter\" title=\"TOP 5 WAYS TO USE AWSTATS\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TOP-5-WAYS-TO-USE-AWSTATS.png\" alt=\"TOP 5 WAYS TO USE AWSTATS\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TOP-5-WAYS-TO-USE-AWSTATS.png 940w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/TOP-5-WAYS-TO-USE-AWSTATS-480x402.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 940px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 class=\"blue\">How to use AWstats<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"red\">There are many perks to being a Maine Hosting Solutions customer but one of the MANY amazing features that we often overlook is AWstats. AWstats is included in cPanel on every hosting account. <a href=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/support\/cpanel-user-guide\/\">Simply login to your cPanel<\/a> and click on the AWStats icon.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"blue\">What is AWstats?<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Advanced Web Statistics<\/strong> (AWStats) is an amazing web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your web statistics including: visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords used to find your site, broken links, robots and more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-52275 size-medium\" title=\"Top 5 ways how to use AWstats\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-monthly-view-300x297.png\" alt=\"Top 5 ways how to use AWstats\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-monthly-view-300x297.png 300w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-monthly-view-170x168.png 170w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-monthly-view.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The main advantage of AWstats<\/strong> vs. other web analyzers such as google analytics, is that this program will not only analyze web logs, but also FTP and mail ones, which will give you a lot more detailed information about the activity taking place on your website.<\/li>\n<li>AWstats allows you to get a <strong>good understanding of visitor<\/strong> numbers from both humans and robots, and monitor how much bandwidth is being used. You might also be able to detect if someone is hotlinking to your images or document files too, and taking your bandwidth that way.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0<strong>It is a tool for network administrators as well as marketers.<\/strong> Don&#8217;t waste your time or money on stat counters or visitor counters which are usually inaccurate- AWstats is a server based analyzer and is included in any of our hosting packages that are offered from a <a href=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/web-hosting\/\">Starter Plan<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/web-hosting\/\">Super Plan<\/a>! AWstats is located in the control panel and contains just about any information that you could ever want or need in regards to monitoring activity on your site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"blue\"><strong>Here are the top 5 pieces of information that you can pull from your AWstats:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><strong class=\"red\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-52273 size-medium\" title=\"awstats hourly view\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-hourly-view-300x223.png\" alt=\"awstats hourly view\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-hourly-view-300x223.png 300w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-hourly-view-226x168.png 226w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-hourly-view.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Monthly History:<\/strong> This graphs out the unique visitors, number of visits, pages, hits and bandwidth on a month by month basis (see chart).<\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"red\">Weekly\/Rush\u00a0Hour Activity:<\/strong> This charts out the activity of your site based on the hours of the day. It will show you the busiest and slowest times that activity is being generated.<\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"red\">Search Keyphrases:<\/strong> This analyzes and displays the keywords or key phrases that users typed in in order to get to your site. This can be a huge to tool to utilize if you plan on doing any SEO or promotion for your site.<\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"red\">Fan Favorites:<\/strong> AWstats allows you view your sites most viewed,\u00a0entry\u00a0and\u00a0exit\u00a0pages by visitors. It also calculates the number of times your site is &#8220;added to favorites bookmarks&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong class=\"red\">Robot\/Spider Counter:<\/strong> These are automated programs that enter into websites and follow internal links to seek content and use them as key phrases that may pertain to your websites products. With <a href=\"https:\/\/awstats.sourceforge.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AWstats<\/a>, you can track these search engine robots and estimate when your website will be found and be established on the internet.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52274 size-full\" title=\"awstats top pages\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-top-pages.png\" alt=\"awstats top pages\" width=\"600\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-top-pages.png 600w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-top-pages-275x140.png 275w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-top-pages-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>AWstats Questions:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Does AWstats work with WordPress?<\/strong> YES, AWstats will grab data for all file requests that in your www\/ directory.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How do I access my AWstats on my MHS Account?<\/strong> Simply <a href=\"https:\/\/billing.mainehost.net\/knowledgebase\/3494\/-How-to-login-to-cPanel---cPanel-Login.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">login to your cPanel<\/a> and click on the AWstats icon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52271 size-full\" title=\"awstats cpanel wordpress\" src=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-cpanel-wordpress.png\" alt=\"awstats cpanel wordpress\" width=\"691\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-cpanel-wordpress.png 691w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-cpanel-wordpress-275x143.png 275w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-cpanel-wordpress-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/awstats-cpanel-wordpress-610x317.png 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Let us summarize by saying that <span class=\"blue\">AWStats is AWESOME!<\/span><\/strong> You can pull data and create graphical and textual displays of your sites activity. \u00a0As an added bonus, AWStats offers the ability to export data into an XML format for presentations.\u00a0Remember that this program is free with any hosting package and is located right in your control panel. <strong>Enjoy!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also see:<\/strong>\u00a0<a class=\"yoast-link-suggestion__value\" href=\"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/web-hosting\/cpanel-hosting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cPanel Hosting Features<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to use AWstats There are many perks to being a Maine Hosting Solutions customer but one of the MANY amazing features that we often overlook is AWstats. AWstats is included in cPanel on every hosting account. Simply login to your cPanel and click on the AWStats icon. What is AWstats? 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