Website traffic

For more than 20 years, we have supported our customers with their web projects. Based on this experience, we know what our customers’ main concerns are when they launch or own a website. Their concerns and issues often involve a lack of actionable information available to them:

• Limited knowledge of their audience, and the profile of people interested in their site and products.
• Lack of visibility into the impact of changes and edits deployed on their website.
• Low SEO ranking, i.e. their websites are not listed in the top results offered by search engines.
• Not sure where to start improving your website? Identify and address some initial areas that need to be improved and corrected.

To avoid these issues and save you valuable time, OVHcloud Web Statistics will give you the visibility you need to set up an effective, relevant web strategy for your business.

A statistical analysis tool helps you track and manage your traffic. It provides you with key information about your users, and different sections of your website.

We have decided to include OVHcloud Web Statistics in all of our Web Hosting plans as a statistical tool for measuring website audiences. This solution is very easy to use, and can be accessed directly from the OVHcloud Control Panel.

• Access to the OVHcloud Web Statistics tool is included by default in all of our Web Hosting plans, at no extra cost.
• You can view your statistics the day after your Web Hosting plan is made available. You don't need to install any third-party tools or configure anything to use this service. It is also valid for each domain and subdomain you have on your hosting plan.
• This service also has the advantage of not collecting visitors' personal data, and thus complies with the regulations in force (GDPR).

Your data is stored so that you can analyse how your website's performance changes over time.

We wanted to make technical data more accessible, as it is often difficult to read and interpret.

Similar data is grouped by starting with a general overview that is simple to interpret, then detailed in sections for those who have more advanced technical knowledge. You can select specific time ranges, too.

1. A general overview of traffic trends for your websites on your Web Hosting plan:

• Sessions
• Pages visited
• Pages viewed with errors
• Average session time

2. Ranking of the most commonly used internet browsers for visiting your websites:

• Top browsers
• Top platforms (operating systems)
• Top browser-platform combinations

3. The proportion of visitors depending on their location:

• Graphical representation of website request origins
• Top regions with number of sessions by geographical origin

4. Ranking of the most visited pages on your websites:

• Most visited pages
• Most popular forms
• Most frequent user visits

5. View the robots that pass through your websites:

• Top robots that visited
• Most accessed pages by robots

6. Failure and success statistics based on HTTP codes returned:

• D-1 comparison of valid access, client errors and site errors
• Graphical representation over time of the number of access errors
• Top pages with errors
• Graphical representation of website health with HTTP status codes

You can also download event logs from your website.

Finally, you will have general information on hosting activity:

• FTP connections
• HTTP requests
• Outbound connections
• CPU usage
• Exceeding the resource threshold
• SQL requests per DB
• SQL response time per DB

Now that you have a statistical tool that enables you to leverage the information from your website, you can build your web strategy.

• Follow trends in website structure. Stay up to date with the latest content management techniques.
• Make informed decisions on your advertising and communication actions.
• Go further with a web expert to optimise your strategy.
• View your website’s logs in almost real-time, so you can check that your website is working properly, and perform analyses and calculations based on the logs. This free web traffic analysis service is natively included with all OVHcloud hosting plans. Optimise your website performance with log analysis, an advanced feature included in our OVHcloud Web Statistics service.