As you can imagine, this can make the raw web log for even a modestly busy website nearly impossible to interpret without some help. Thankfully, cPanel comes with several tools that make interpreting all this data much easier. These tools are called web stats programs. They take the raw web log data and turn that data into manageable charts and graphs. The resulting data is much easier for mere mortals to understand.

To view the web statistics for your site, click on Web/FTP Stats in cPanel (there is a separate link for data only concerning subdomains called Subdomain Stats). From here you can access all of the tools cPanel provides to help you understand more about who is using your site and for what purpose.

cPanel automatically updates web stats information every 24 hours or however often your web host has set it to happen. Generating web stats takes a lot of server CPU time (often referred to as load). For this reason, most web hosts won’t have the web stats...