Awstats Stats Explained

Updated: 22 October 2026 · Applies to: AWStats

AWStats reports on who visits your website and how. Here is what each part of the report means.

• Last Update: when the statistics were last refreshed. The "Update now" link next to it refreshes them on demand.
• Reported period: the drop-down menu that selects which period to view, for example "Year" for yearly totals.
• Summary: a table split into "Traffic viewed" (visits from real people) and "Traffic not viewed" (search engine crawlers, bots and requests that returned a special HTTP status, such as pages that were not found).
• Unique visitors: the number of distinct IP addresses that reached your website, roughly corresponding to distinct people.
• Number of visits: the total number of visits. A visitor who returns daily adds to this total every day. The visits-to-visitors ratio below it shows how often people come back.
• Pages: how many different pages were opened.
• Hits: the number of files served for those page views. For example, if index.php pulls in four other files, one visit to it counts as 5 hits.
• Bandwidth: total size of everything downloaded. If index.html is 100KB, each access to it adds 100KB. Bandwidth/Visit below it is the average per visitor.

Below the summary table, the same figures are broken down by "Monthly history", "Days of the month", "Days of the week" and "Hours", showing when your site gets the most traffic.

• Countries (Top 25): the 25 countries that visited most, with a "Full list" link for the rest.
• Hosts (Top 25): hostnames or IP addresses that visited most. An unusually high number of visits from one IP or network can be a sign of a possible DoS attempt worth blocking.
• Authenticated users (Top 10): visitors who accessed your password-protected directories, if any.
• Robots/Spiders visitors (Top 25): visits from search engine crawlers and other bots.
• Visits duration: average time visitors spent on the site.
• Files type: the most-requested file types.
• Pages-URL (Top 25): the most-viewed individual pages.
• Operating Systems (Top 10) and Browsers (Top 10): what visitors used to access the site.
• Connect to site from: other pages that linked to yours, showing which sites refer the most visitors.
• Search Keyphrases and Search Keywords: the keywords and phrases the stats engine recorded against your pages.
• HTTP Error codes: the error responses visitors received, for example from requesting a page that does not exist.