What’s in the report
Click View next to any domain. You land on the current-month summary page with:- Top bar chart: hits, files, pages, visits per day for the month.
- Per-month summary table: daily totals stacked by month.
- Per-month detail pages: click a month to drill down to:
- Daily and hourly graphs
- Top URLs by hit count
- Top entry and exit pages
- Top referrers
- Top search strings
- Top user agents
- Top countries (geo-IP based)
Webalizer vs AWStats
| Webalizer | AWStats | |
|---|---|---|
| Update frequency | Once a day | Once a day |
| UI age | Late 1990s | Mid 2000s |
| Country breakdown | Built in | Optional plugin |
| Search term tracking | Crude | Reliable |
| Robot detection | Outdated | Better |
| Output format | Tables and basic SVG | Tables, SVG, anchor-linked TOC |
What it can’t do
Same limitations as every server-side analyzer:- Can’t see CDN-cached requests (Cloudflare-served traffic is invisible).
- Can’t measure client-side performance.
- Can’t tell logged-in users from anonymous visitors.
Common issues
Country column shows 'Unresolved/Unknown' for most visitors
Country column shows 'Unresolved/Unknown' for most visitors
Webalizer’s geo-IP database on cPanel is updated infrequently. Modern IP allocations (especially mobile and IPv6) often resolve as Unknown. AWStats has the same issue. For accurate country data, instrument client-side analytics.
Search engine traffic is missing from referrers
Search engine traffic is missing from referrers
Most search engines now strip the search query from the referrer header (Google has done this since 2011). The “Top search strings” section only catches the small fraction of traffic where the search engine still passes the query.
Numbers don't match my Google Analytics dashboard
Numbers don't match my Google Analytics dashboard
They never will. Webalizer counts every server hit (including bots, asset requests, and 404s). GA only counts page views by browsers running its JavaScript. The two are measuring different things, not contradicting each other.