Website Statistics - Log Files

On this page you can enable, disable, clear or download log files. Click the corresponding icon or link to proceed.

If logs were accidentally broken (manually or occasionally removed from the database), you can click the Reset to Defaults button to reset the path to the default values taken from the Apache configuration file.

An access log is a list of all the requests for individual files that people have requested from a website. These files will include the HTML files and their embedded graphic images and any other associated files that get transmitted. The access log (sometimes referred to as the "raw data") can be analyzed and summarized by another program. In general, an access log can be analyzed to tell you:

- The number of visitors (unique first-time requests) to a home page;
- The origin of the visitors in terms of their associated server's domain name (for example, visitors from .edu, .com, and .gov sites and from the online services);
- How many requests for each page at the site, which can be presented with the pages with most requests listed first;
- Usage patterns in terms of time of day, day of week, and seasonally.

The error log, as the name suggests, contains a record of everything that went wrong while your server was running. It also contains general diagnostic messages, such as a notification of when your server was restarted, or shut down. Note: Raw logs are compressed by Gzip archive utility (.gz) to save space and download time. Use gzip -d on Unix, or WinZip utility on Windows to decompress.