2.1. Analyzing Your Site Traffic

2.1.1.  Wusage 7.0

To count accesses, there is a directory called webstats in your www directory. To access it, just log on the Internet and with your web browser, go to:

http://www.yourdomain.com/webstats/

*For some customers, url may be as follows:

http://www.yourdomain.com/wusage/

You will see a webpage with statistics for your domain for the previous week. If you are a brand new domain, you won't see any statistics there yet. If you go to the link from that page leading to Weekly Reports, you will see a much more detailed report, including pie charts, graphs, etc. These reports are automatically generated for you once each week, and are stored in one place so you can compare weekly statistics easily.

The previous week's data is erased each Sunday.

For password protecting your webstats/ directory, please goto Password Protected Subdirectories.

2.1.2. Raw Log File

In your home directory, you will see a file called access-log. You can download this file using a FTP program and open it in any word processor to see exactly what files were accessed, what domain the visitor came from, the dates and times of each visit, etc. You can also download this file to be used with your own web traffic analyzer.

The previous week's data is erased each Sunday.

2.1.3. Referral Log

By turning on the referral log, you will be able to view regular domain names in your traffic report rather than IP addresses.