Web Statistics Management Settings

Whois.com Pte Ltd gives you the ability to comprehensively customize your Web Statistics reports, to obtain accurate and more pertinent details about your Website. You can customize your reports from your Control Panel itself; follow the process mentioned below to do so:

  1. Login to your Control Panel, Search for the domain name for which you have purchased this Hosting Order and go to the Order Information view. 1

  2. Click the Manage Web Hosting link.

  3. In the Menu, point to Manage Website -> Web Statistics Manager and then click Settings.

  4. This page allows you to specify the following options, which can be configured as per your requirement:

    • Generate Web Stats: Select YES if you wish to obtain statistics for your website. The statistics are generated on a daily basis.

    • Keep Backup of Historic Files: Whenever your web statistics are to be updated, the system overwrites the old (historic) files with the new data. However, if an error is encountered (e.g. if your site runs out of allowed disk space), the file may get corrupt, causing you to lose all old data as well. Selecting this option would keep a copy of the old file for your referral.

    • Purge Log File: Your raw log files would be deleted after the statistics are generated, if you choose YES. This would prevent logs from taking up web space.

    • Skip Hosts: Choose this option to avoid recording statistics from specific hosts. For example, you might wish not to record statistics for all hits/visits from your own home/office. Specify such hosts, IP addresses or a range of IP addresses (using regular expressions) here. The values need to be separated by a space. For example, values can be provided in this field as

      xyz.com localhost REGEX[192.168.52.*] 192.168.0.39 REGEX[123.45.*.*]

    • Skip Files: Use this option to avoid recording data for particular URLs. Using this, you can make sure that statistics pertaining to unimportant pages or directories are not recorded.

    • Only Files: This is the exact opposite of the previous option. Using this, you can choose to record data only pertaining to specific/important pages or directories.

    • Not Page List: Enter a list of file extensions that would be considered only a Hit, and not a Page View.

    • Protect Webstats: Password protection for web statistics can be enabled/disabled using this option. This option is available only in case of Windows hosting.

  5. Click Submit to save the changes.

Note

In order to complete the action in case of Linux Hosting, the Web Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts affect other services running on the Server. In order to avoid this, the Server has been scheduled to restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, the changes might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.

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