Usage Meter

Overview

Usage Meter allows you to check your scripts environment and your allowed usage space known as quota. With it you can check all, free and used space on your account.

This application displays the following data related to your hosting account:

• Disc usage (%)
• Available disc space (MB)
• Used disc space (MB)
• Free disc space (MB)
• Available bandwidth (MB)
• Current bandwidth (MB)
• Mailboxes (used/available)

Usage History

You can view usage history of your account choosing a period to view in a drop down menu of Usage History tab. The following figures will be displayed within the tab:

• Disc usage (MB)
• Bandwidth (bytes)
• Number of mail boxes used

There is an option to show your scripts environment. In order to make use of this option, click the button Show/hide scripts environment and all relevant data will be displayed on the bottom of the page.

View Web statistics

Using this option you can view detailed statistics for your account in a separate window. To view statistics for a specific month, click the month from the month column of the "Summary by month" table.

The various statistics that Web Stats generates are described below:

Hits

Any request made to the server which is logged is considered a "hit". The requests can be for any resource: HTML pages, graphic images, audio files, cgi scripts, etc. Each valid line in the server log is counted as a hit. This number represents the total number of requests that were made to the server during the specified report period.

Hits by response code

After a client makes a request to the server, the server returns a response code (status code). The response code shows the result of the request. "Hits by response code" represents the total number of requests that received the same specified status code. Some common response codes are:

• 200 OK
• 302 Found
• 304 Not Modified
• 400 Bad Request
• 401 Unauthorized
• 403 Forbidden
• 404 Not found
• 500 Server error

Files

Some requests made to the server require that the server responds to the requesting client. This type of request is considered a "file" and the file total is incremented. The relationship between "hits" and "files", may be thought of as "incoming requests" and "outgoing responses".

Pages

Any HTML document, or process that generates an HTML document, is considered a page. This does not include graphic images, audio clips, etc. This number represents only the number of "pages" requested. What actually constitutes a "page" is determined by file extension.

Agents

A user agent is a web browser. The User Agent statistic details the type and version of the browsers used to view the domain.

Sites

Each request made to the server comes from a unique site, which can be referenced by a name or an IP address. The site's number shows how many unique IP addresses made requests to the server during the reporting period.

Visits

Whenever a request is made to the server from a given IP address, the amount of time since a previous request by the address is calculated. If the time difference is greater than a pre-configured "visit timeout" value (or has never made a request before), it is considered a "new visit". This total is incremented both for the site, and the IP address. The time-out value is 30 minutes.

KBytes

The KBytes (kilobytes) value shows the amount of data, in KB that was sent out by the server during the specified reporting period. This value is generated directly from the log file, so it is up to the web server to produce accurate numbers in the logs. In general, this should be a fairly accurate representation of the amount of outgoing traffic.