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title: "Viewing website statistics in cPanel using AWStats"
slug: "viewing-website-statistics-in-cpanel-using-awstats"
updated: 2026-07-13T02:51:58Z
published: 2026-07-13T02:51:58Z
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# Viewing website statistics in cPanel using AWStats

AwStats is a useful tool to access via your cPanel instance for information about website usage and visitors. It is included as apart of every base installation. **It should be noted that by default, AwStats updates once every 24 hours.**

An example of the AwStats Dashboard is shown below: ![Summary statistics for testing.com showing zero unique visitors and visits for March 2026.](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 4.54.23 PM.png)

Some of the statistics provided by AwStats are as follows. For a more information about specific items below please see the AwStats Glossary available through cPanel documentation.

- Top 25 pages
- Duration of visits
- Visitors per month
- Country of origin
- Files types
- Pages-url requests (top 25)
- User operating systems and browsers(top 10)
- Connect to site from
- Search key phrases (top 10)
- Search Keywords (top 25)

## Accessing AwStats

1. Log in to your cPanel account.

![cPanel login screen with fields for username and password, and a login button.](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/cpanel login box defaulttheme(4).jpg)

1. In the **Metrics** section, click **Awstats**: ![](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/image-1688123917110.png)
2. Click the **‘View’** icon next to the domain name to open up the AwStats Statistic dashboard: ![Awstats interface displaying domain selection with a highlighted 'View' action button.](https://cdn.document360.io/d809f158-d4f4-47ff-83d4-18d9c9f7a04d/Images/Documentation/Screenshot 2026-03-25 at 4.22.09 PM.png)