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What is Webalizer?
Webalizer is web server statistics program that comes
FREE will all of our standard web
hosting packages. Webalizer creates
highly detailed usage reports that you can view
within
a web
browser.
Webalizer Help
How do I access/view the Webalizer logs for my web
hosting acount?
In a web browser type:
http://www.yourdomain.com/webalizer/web
substituting "yourdomain.com" with your actual web site domain
name.
MAIN HEADINGS
Hits represent the total number of requests
made to the server during the given time period (month, day, hour
etc.).
Files represent
the total number of hits (requests) that actually resulted
in something being sent back to the user. NOTE: Not all hits
will send data, such as 404-Not Found requests and requests for
pages that are already in the browsers cache.
Tip: By looking
at the difference between hits and files, you can get a rough
indication of repeat visitors, as the greater
the difference
between the two, the more people are requesting pages they
already have cached (have viewed already).
Sites is the number
of unique IP addresses/hostnames that made requests
to the server. Care should be taken when using this
metric for anything other than that. Many users can appear
to come from
a single site, and they can also appear to come from many
IP addresses so it should be used simply as a rough gauge as
to
the number of
visitors to your server.
Visits occur when some remote site
makes a request for a page on your server for the first time.
As long as the same
site
keeps making requests within a given timeout period, they
will all
be
considered part of the same Visit.
If the site makes a request to your server, and the length
of time since the last
request
is greater than the specified timeout period (default is
30 minutes), a new Visit is started
and counted, and the sequence
repeats.
Since
only pages will trigger a visit, remotes sites that link
to graphic and other non- page URLs will not be counted
in the
visit totals,
reducing the number of false visits.
Pages are those URLs
that would be considered the actual page being requested,
and not all of the individual items
that make
it up
(such as graphics and audio clips). Some people call
this metric page views or page impressions, and defaults to
any URL that
has an extension of .htm, .html or .cgi.
KByte (KB) is 1024 bytes (1
Kilobyte). Used to show the amount of data that was transferred
between the server
and
the remote
machine, based on the data found in the server log.
COMMON DEFINITIONS
Site: a remote machine that makes requests
to your server, and is based on the remote machines IP Address/Hostname.
URL: "Uniform Resource Locator" All
requests made to a web server need to request something. A URL
is that
something,
and represents
an object somewhere on your server, that is accessible to
the remote user, or results in an error (ie: 404 - Not found).
URLs can be of any type (HTML, Audio, Graphics, etc.).
Referrers: URLs that lead a user to your site or caused the
browser to request something from your server.
The vast
majority of requests are made from your own URLs, since
most HTML pages
contain links to other objects such as graphics files.
If one of your HTML pages contains links to 10 graphic images,
then
each request for the HTML page will produce 10 more hits
with the referrer specified as the URL of your own HTML
page.
Search Strings: are obtained from examining the referrer
string and looking for known patterns from various search
engines.
The search engines and the patterns to look for can be
specified by the user within a configuration file. The
default will
catch most of the major ones.
Note: Only available if that information is contained
in the server logs.
User Agents: Another name for web browsers.
Netscape, Opera, Konqueror, etc.. are all User Agents, and
each reports
itself in a unique
way to your server.
Note: Only available if that information is contained
in the server logs.
Entry/Exit pages: those pages
that were the first requested in a visit (Entry), and the last
requested
(Exit). These
pages are calculated using the Visits logic above.
When a visit is
first triggered, the requested page is counted as
an Entry page, and whatever the last requested URL was,
is counted
as an Exit
page.
Countries: Determined based on the top level
domain of the requesting site. This is somewhat questionable
however, as
there is no longer strong enforcement of domains
as there was in the
past. A .COM domain may reside in the US, or somewhere
else.
An .IL domain may actually be in Isreal, however
it may also be located in the US or elsewhere.
The most
common
domains
seen are .COM (US Commercial), .NET (Network),
.ORG (Non-profit Organization)
and .EDU (Educational). A large percentage may
also be shown as Unresolved/Unknown, as a fairly large
percentage of dial up
and other customer access points do not resolve
to a
name and are left as an IP address.
Response Codes: Defined as part of the HTTP/1.1 protocol. These
codes are generated
by the web server
and indicate the completion status of each request
made to it.
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