About Your Account - Web Stats: Webalizer

If you wish to track your Web site's hits and usage statistics, you can use the powerful Web site statistics tool, Webalizer. The latest version on our Web servers is Webalizer 2.01-10.

Activating Webalizer

You can easily activate Webalizer using our Account Control Center (ACC):

1. Log into the Account Control Center (https://my.pair.com/)
2. Click Web Site Statistics
3. Click Reports (located under the Bandwidth Usage heading)
4. Select Webalizer from the drop-down menu (to the right of the Log Analysis Tool heading)
5. Click Change Tool
6. Click Tool Settings
7. Modify the Webalizer Settings
8. Click Update Settings

To learn about what each of the Webalizer settings mean, read our Webalizer settings descriptions section below.

Once you activate Webalizer, each night at 12 AM US Eastern time, Webalizer will generate usage reports for your account. Be sure to activate your Webalizer nightly reports so that you can view your Webalizer reports (which are based on your nightly Web logs). You can activate your nightly reports when you click the "Reports" button in the Web Site Statistics section of the Account Control Center (https://my.pair.com). If your nightly reports are active, you can also view your Webalizer reports using the "Report URL" on this page as well.

For information on how to interpret your Webalizer reports, visit http://webalizer.com/webalizer_help.html.

Set up Webalizer for Multiple Domain Names

If you have multiple domain names on your account, and you want to run reports per domain name, you will need to follow a few additional steps below. You will have to follow these steps for each domain name one at a time.

1. Set up Webalizer as you normally would through the Account Control Center (https://my.pair.com/)
2. Enter the directory /usr/home/USERNAME/log_config via SSH (replace USERNAME with your pair Networks username)
3. Begin editing WEBALIZER_LOGNAME.cfg (LOGNAME is the name that you gave the ACC to use for separate logs for your domain name)
4. Remove the line "#AUTO GENERATED FILE - Webalizer 2.01-10 Configuration" from the top of WEBALIZER_LOGNAME.cfg
5. Set the report name you wish on the line for ReportTitle (e.g. ReportTitle "Statistics for www.example.com")
6. Set the hostname line for Hostname to the configuration file's domain name (e.g. "HostName example.com")
7. Save this newly updated configuration file
8. Repeat these steps for each domain name

You can also set up a URL for your Web site statistics by editing the OutputDir field in the configuration file. You can set OutputDir to a path under the mapped directory for a domain name. For instance, if one of your domain names is mapped to /usr/www/users/Username/example.com/, you could set OutputDir to use:

OutputDir /usr/www/users/Username/example.com/stats/

You will then be able to view your Web site statistics for example.com at the URL http://www.example.com/stats/. These changes will be reflected on the next nightly run of Webalizer.

Using the Tool Settings Page

The Tool Settings page gives you the option of changing the information displayed on your Webalizer reports. You can name the report by using the Report Title field. If you only have one domain name on your Web hosting account, enter that domain name (example.com) in the Hostname field. If you have more than one domain name on your account, leave the "Hostname" field blank.

You may also designate a specific directory on your pair Networks server where these reports will be saved in the Report Output Directory field. By default, the directory will be WEBALIZER_REPORTS. Please note that it is NOT necessary to change the Report Title, Hostname, and Report Output Directory fields to produce Webalizer reports.

The other options are easily changed by selecting the desired setting from the drop-down menus. These Webalizer settings are described in more detail below.

Webalizer Setting Descriptions

Webalizer allows you to update your settings via the Account Control Center (ACC) or via a command line program such as SSH. For information on manually configuring Weballizer, visit the URL below:

ftp://ftp.mrunix.net/pub/webalizer/sample.conf You can find your Webalizer configuration file at the path /usr/home/USERNAME/log_config/FILENAME where you replace "USERNAME" with your pair Networks username and "FILENAME" is replaced with the configuration file's filename. The default report file name is "www." If you split the reports for a domain name out into separate reports, you can name the file whatever you want (even though it defaults to the domain name).

For example, the Webalizer config file for example.com would be:

/usr/home/USERNAME/log_config/WEBALIZER_example.com.cfg

The ACC settings descriptions and how to modify them are listed below:

Report Output Directory

You need to specify the path on the server where you would like the Webalizer reports to go. Make sure that you have created this subdirectory in your home directory. Here's an example path to include:

/usr/www/users/example/WEBALIZER_REPORTS

Make sure you replace the word "example" with your pair Networks username.

Report Title

This option allows you to name the Webalizer report.

GMT Time

GMT Time can be set to "On" and "Off" using the ACC. Setting it to "On" will show the log output in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) time. If set to ""Off," the output will be in local server time or Eastern US time.

Show daily stats

This option allows you to enable or disable the creation and display of a Daily Usage statistics table. The option can be set to "On" or "Off" using the ACC. The default value is "On."

Show graph legends

Show graph legends will display a color coded legend. The default is "On," so you must set it to "Off" if you do not want the legend displayed on your report.

All URL's visited

This option will create a separate page containing all the URLs that have been visited. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Top search strings

This option will display the top search strings. The option can set the number of search strings (either zero, 5, 10, 20, or 50).

Session Timeout

This option should be set to the length of time a visitor can remain idle without the session being considered a "new hit." The default value is 30 minutes. In the ACC, the options are zero minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, and one hour.

Show countries

This option can display a graph of the countries that visited your Web site. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Hourly graph

This option will display a graph of your Web site statistics by the hour. The option can be set to "On" or "Off" using the ACC.

All referrers

This option will create a separate page showing all referral links. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Top entry pages

This option will display the Top entry page report. The default is set at 10 pages. It can be disabled by setting it to 0. You can also set it to 5, 20, or 50.

All search strings

This option will create a separate page displaying all search strings. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Top Referrers

This option should be set to the number of top referring links to be shown on the main page. The default setting in the ACC is 5. The other options are 10, 20. 50, and 100.

Show daily graph

This option will display a graph of your Web site statistics by the day. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Hourly stats

This option will create an hourly statistical report. The option can be set to "On" or "Off."

Top visited URL's

This option will display the top visited URLs on your report and can be set to either zero, five, 10, 20, or 50.

Top leaving pages

This option will display the top pages that leave your Web site.

Top Countries

This option display the top number of countries that visit your Web site. The default is five. You can disable this feature by setting the value to zero via the ACC.

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