Understanding your Webalizer Statistics
What is the Webalizer?
The Webalizer displays statistics about your website. You can see how many visitors you get, the most popular pages, what countries the visitors are from, how visitors reached your site, and more. The results are presented in both charts and graphs and are displayed by year, month, and hour.
The home page displays a basic user summary by month over the last one year span. By clicking on the month name, you can then see detailed statistics for that month.
Important Key Words
The Webalizer records a lot of statistics about your website. Some of these will not be relevant to you however. Here is a description of the most important key words you will need to understand.
Visitor/User - A real person that has accessed your website.
Visits - This is the number that is most important in your statistics. Visits represent the total number of people that have visited your website during the reported period. If the same person visits the site twice, they will be recorded twice.
Hits - This represents the total number of requests made to the server when your site has been visited during that reported period. The requests can be images, pages, audio files, javascript files, etc. Don't be fooled by this number, it does not represent the total visitors to your website.
Sites - This number may not be 100% accurate, but can be used as a rough gauge to track the total number of unique (different) visitors to your site.
Pages - This represents the total number of pages visited during the reported period.
Referrals - This represents the total number of visits to your website home page by linking. This includes links from search engines, external links, and even links on your own website.
Visits, Sites, and Pages the most important numbers in your statistics package. These keywords will appear throughout the statistics summary, reported in a variety of manners.
Detailed Statistics Breakdown
Monthly statistics
These stats are pretty much the same as on the first page. It shows your monthly stats for Visits, Sites, and Pages, as well as daily averages.
You can also view Hits by Response Code. Whenever a page is requested a response code is produced based on how that page is found. If the page is found and everything is normal the code is 200. If the page is not found (because of a bad link or typo in the request) the code is 404.
Daily Usage Graph
This breaks down the month by each day and reports the major stats in graphical format. Visits are represented in yellow in the middle row.
Daily Statistics Chart
This chart reports the numbers that are represented in the above graph. It also gives those numbers a percentage for the month.
Hourly Usage Graph
This graph displays the total Pages, Files, and Hits recorded for each hour of the day throughout the month.
Hourly Statistics Chart
This chart displays the total Pages, Files, and Hits recorded for each hour of the day throughout the month. It also shows daily average.
Top 30 URLs by Hits
This chart shows the most requested files on your site whether they are pages, images, audio, etc. The chart is sorted by hits.
Top 10 URLs by KBytes
This chart shows the most requested files on your site whether they are pages, images, audio, etc. The chart is sorted by KBytes (size).
Top Total Entry Pages
This chart shows the first page visitors see on entering your website. Most visitors see the home page first. If a visitor comes to your website from a search engine or a link from another website, they may enter through an internal page.
Top Total Exit Pages
This chart shows the last page visitors see before leaving your website.
Top Total Sites
This chart displays the top sites (unique visitors) for your website for the reported period. The Hostname is the location of the visitor's computer. The chart is sorted by hits.
Top Total Referrers
This charts displays the links that visitors have clicked on the web to access your website home page. A direct address is when a visitor types your domain into the browser or uses a bookmark.
Top Search Strings
This chart shows the top search strings that visitors have typed into search engines and have then accessed your website. The chart is sorted by hits.
Usage by Country
This graph displays the major countries from which visitors have accessed your website. The US has been broken down into major categories (Commercial, Educational, Government, etc.).
Top Total Countries
This chart displays the numbers for the above graph.
