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Reading Web Logs, and Web Statistics.
Log in to your control panel: www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
1. Click on Tools in the top menu
2. First option is Web/FTP Stats, click to view
3. Click on Analog
4. Choose a month to view
5. Click on Search Word Report
a. These are the top words, how people actually found your
site
6. Look just below the pie chart, to view the top 30 words
used to find your site
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Click on the tools menu again, to FTP/Web Stats, and then
click on Awstats
The first number in Orange is the Total Unique Visitors. This
tells you not the total visits, but individual people that
made it to the site. This number is typically the most indicative
of actual traffic.
Just below that you can view the unique visitors for the
last 12 months, for comparison
Scroll down to “Robots/Spiders”
This tells you when the Google robot was last at your site
to index your pages
Visit Duration: If 90% of your hits are less than 30 seconds,
chances are that person clicked away before reading anything,
time to find out why.
Top 25 pages: This tells you what the popular pages of your
site are.
Operating system: If more than 5% of your visitors are on
a Macintosh, you might consider checking to be certain the
pages render correctly.
Search Key phrases: Notice the top word search, but pay attention
to the “full list” the only reason the full list
keywords are not hitting more, is because the site is not
optimized for them very well. Assume that people *are* searching
with these words, and that improvement should be made in these
areas to capture more searches.
Webalizer:
Click on Month (clue highlighted links)
Total Unique referrers gives an idea to compare with the
stats of unique hits found in analog stats. This number is
low, but is for certain a minimum number of real visitors.
Top 30 URLs: These show the popular pages of your site, most
visited.
Top ten entry pages: shows the most frequent places that
people surfed into your site, and often is not the homepage.
This tells you a lot about what pages are getting hit, so
compare that with the top search terms, and continue to optimize
here.
Referrers: this tells you who sent people to your site. If
it says that Google referred 200 people this month, then it
means 200 people went to Google, typed in a search term, and
actually clicked through from there. This also can show you
who is linking to your site, perhaps without you knowing.
Top 20 search strings: These tell you more about what people
actually typed, to find your site. The number one search term
here, is the most popular term at Google that finds your site.
Know that you must be getting good ranking here, and be certain
to optimize more, as its working!
Latest Visitors: This tab tells you the ip addresses of the
last ten people on your site.
The referrer is the page they were last looking at, the Host
is the computers address. The agent tells you the computers
browser. MSIE stands for Microsoft Internet Explorer, AOL
is America Online, and if you see Google or yahoo listed there,
it probably means that a robot came to index the site. If
you see a http code of 404, this means the page or image was
not found, and we should fix this ASAP.
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Tools -> FTP/Web Stats -> Error Log
This tells you any errors such as missing images, missing
pages, or other. If you have a question as to what this means,
feel free to ask.
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