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# Webalizer

> Monthly visitor analytics with hit, page, and bandwidth charts per domain. Older sibling of Awstats.

Webalizer is a log analyzer that produces a monthly summary report per domain. It overlaps heavily with [AWStats](/web-hosting/cpanel/metrics-analytics/awstats); both read the same Apache logs and report similar metrics. Webalizer's UI is older and busier; pick whichever you find easier to read.

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## 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| **Robot detection**      | Outdated             | Better                         |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 |

If you want country data quickly, Webalizer's the faster path. For everything else AWStats is better.

## 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

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  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="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.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

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