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Viewing information about visitors, bandwidth, and resource usage in cPanel

cPanel provides built‑in tools to help you monitor your website’s traffic and server resource consumption. These metrics are essential for troubleshooting, performance optimization, and ensuring you stay within hosting limits.

Viewing Visitor Information

Section titled “Viewing Visitor Information”

  1. Log in to cPanel.

  2. On the Tools page → Metrics section, click Visitors.

  3. Select the domain you want to analyze.

  4. cPanel displays up to 1,000 lines of recent visitor data, including:

    • IP address
    • Date and time of visit
    • Requested URL
    • HTTP status code (e.g., 200, 404, 500)
    • Referrer and user agent

You can sort results by clicking column headings (e.g., sort by IP or date).

Viewing Bandwidth Usage

Section titled “Viewing Bandwidth Usage”

  1. Log in to cPanel.

  2. On the Tools page → Metrics section, click Bandwidth.

  3. Bandwidth statistics are shown for:

    • The past 24 hours
    • The past week
    • The past year
    • Current and previous months

  4. Usage is broken down by protocol:

    • HTTP (web traffic)
    • FTP (file transfers)
    • POP3/IMAP/SMTP (email traffic)

Viewing Resource Usage

Section titled “Viewing Resource Usage”

(Available only on shared and reseller hosting packages)

  1. Log in to cPanel.

  2. On the Tools page → Metrics section, click Resource Usage.

  3. Click Details or the Current Usage tab.

  4. Use the Timeframe and Time Unit filters to view usage over different intervals.

  5. Metrics include:

    • CPU usage
    • Memory usage
    • Input/Output operations
    • Number of processes

  6. Use the Snapshots tab to view historical usage at specific times.