AWstats provided by Cpanel

[silentbob]

Hi

Can anyone give me any info on the AWstats application provided in Cpanel.

In particular I am wanting to understand the Robot/spiders visitor category.

Is this information reliable?...

It displays time of last visits and number of hits , but is that hits over the entire age of my hosting  or only the duration of the reporting period?

In one report I'm seeing ~850 hits from 1 IP address !!!...am I infested with Bots or am i interpreting this data incorrectly?

[CG]

Hey @silentbob, 

Welcome to the community!

As you probably know, search engines use bots to index websites on the Internet. Those Robot/spiders (generally from search engines crawling your site) visits to your website are recorded and shown in this category.

There's a few tutorials out on search engine results to help better explain the results reported, but perhaps the main Glossary from AWStats can help explain the basics. 

[gerald31596]

When in Awstats, what is the difference between a websites number of visits and unique visitors?

[Jessica45]

One visitor can have multiple visits. Especially, if you run a store, the visitors can come more than one time to look at the item before buying. It is still one visitor.