# How to view your website statistics in cPanel

> cPanel's Metrics section includes AWStats, Visitors, Bandwidth, Errors, and Raw Access - tools for understanding your website's traffic and resource usage.

Source: https://www.kualo.com/knowledgebase/cpanel-account/how-to-view-your-website-statistics-in-cpanel
Updated: 2026-06-11

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cPanel's **Metrics** section gives you several tools for understanding your website's traffic and resource usage. The most detailed is **AWStats**, but alongside it you can see your latest visitors, check your bandwidth, review your error log, download your raw logs, and see which statistics programs are running.

## Opening the Metrics tools

Log in to cPanel and find the **Metrics** section.

![The Metrics section in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/21/e6/21e68ea83a5f9fae99faa1fffb7004620f36ed2a.png)

## AWStats

AWStats is the most detailed of the traffic tools, breaking your visits down into counts, page views, hourly patterns, and more.

1. In the **Metrics** section, click **Awstats**.
2. You will see a list of the domains on your account. Click **View** next to the domain you want to check.

![The AWStats domain list in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/27/fe/27fe17e6b4c5203bfd4107575e5af289d63bfe38.png)

This opens the main AWStats page for that domain, where you can explore your traffic in several ways:

- **Monthly summary** - use the month and year selectors at the top to view a specific period.
- **Hourly breakdown** - scroll down to the hourly table to see which times of day are busiest.
- **Other reports** - AWStats also breaks visitors down by country, the pages they viewed, how they found your site, and more.

## Visitors

The **Visitors** tool shows up to 1,000 of the most recent entries in a domain's web server log - each visitor's IP address, the page they requested, the time, and more. It is useful for a quick, live look at who is hitting your site right now.

![Selecting a domain in the Visitors tool in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/5e/a5/5ea52485ca3cbcd536193fb2d5850cde6d7a09b4.png)

Click the **View** icon next to the domain you want to inspect to open its list of recent visitors.

## Bandwidth

The **Bandwidth** tool shows how much data your account has transferred, which helps you see how busy your site is and keep an eye on your plan's allowance.

![The Bandwidth usage view in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/b0/37/b037f0bd203c5688b75da0ce9c19181e5fcc2dd0.png)

It charts your usage over the past day, week, month, and year, and breaks it down by type of traffic - **HTTP** (web), **FTP**, and the mail protocols **IMAP**, **POP3**, and **SMTP**.

## Errors

The **Errors** tool shows the most recent entries from your website's error log - the first place to look when something on your site is not working.

![The Errors tool in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/62/5e/625e0b6275eb5e214b5509477c9450bda50612c5.png)

Each line records an error the server hit, such as a missing file (a 404) or a script problem, along with the time and the file involved.

## Raw Access

**Raw Access** lets you download your raw web server logs - the unprocessed record of every request to your site - for your own analysis.

![The Raw Access tool in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/47/60/476054568baf5a1835b019795c1f64b7f3757953.png)

Under **Configure Logs** you can choose whether cPanel archives each month's logs in your home directory, and set how long to keep them. Under **Download Current Raw Access Logs**, click a domain to download its current log.

## Metrics Editor

The **Metrics Editor** shows which statistics programs are set up for each of your domains.

![The Metrics Editor in cPanel](https://kb-cdn.kualo.com/fe/3b/fe3bf46aed6adf242c42e5287a58c5d62d323314.png)

On our servers AWStats is enabled and managed for you, so this page is mainly for reference - it confirms that statistics are being collected for each domain.

:::tip
Statistics are processed periodically, so a brand-new site - or a change you just made - can take up to a day to show up in AWStats.
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