What do the cPanel stats represent?

Hosting Control Panel | Updated March 2026

The right sidebar in cPanel shows your account statistics at a glance. These numbers tell you how much of your hosting plan's resources you're using. Understanding what each metric means helps you stay on top of disk space, bandwidth, and plan limits.

In This Guide

Storage Stats
Account Feature Stats
Resource Usage (CPU/Memory/IO)
Detailed Metrics and Logs

Key Stats

Understanding your cPanel statistics

Disk Usage - Total space used by files, databases, and email combined
Bandwidth - Data transferred to visitors this month
Inodes - Total number of files and folders on the account
Email Accounts - Number of email accounts created vs allowed
MySQL Databases - Databases created vs allowed

01. Storage Stats

Disk Usage - The total space consumed by everything in your account: website files, email messages, databases, logs, and backups. Shown as "X MB / Y MB" where Y is your plan limit. If you're approaching the limit, see Understanding Disk Space for cleanup tips.

Inodes - The number of files, folders, and email messages on the account. Each file counts as one inode regardless of size. Our shared hosting plans have a 200,000 inode limit. WordPress sites with thousands of cached files or excessive email can hit this before hitting the disk space limit. See the inode section of our disk space guide.

Bandwidth (Monthly Transfer) - The total data served to visitors this month. This resets on your billing anniversary date, not the 1st of the month. For more detail, see What Is Bandwidth?

02. Account Feature Stats

These show how many of each feature you've created versus your plan's maximum:

Email Accounts - Active email addresses. This doesn't include forwarders or autoresponders, only mailboxes.

Addon Domains - Additional domains hosted on this cPanel account, each with their own document root. See Addon Domains.

Subdomains - Subdomains like blog.yourdomain.com created under your primary or addon domains.

MySQL Databases - Active databases. WordPress typically uses one database per installation.

FTP Accounts - Additional FTP users (your main cPanel login doesn't count toward this limit).

Parked Domains - Domains that point to the same content as your primary domain. See Parked Domains.

03. Resource Usage (CPU/Memory/IO)

On CloudLinux servers, each account has resource limits for CPU, memory (RAM), I/O (disk read/write speed), entry processes (concurrent PHP scripts), and number of processes. These are separate from disk space and bandwidth.

Check detailed resource usage at cPanel > Metrics > Resource Usage. This page shows:

Current Usage - Real-time CPU, memory, and I/O consumption.

Faults - Times your account hit a resource limit. Frequent faults mean your site is outgrowing your current plan. See Resource Limit Reached for optimization tips.

04. Detailed Metrics and Logs

cPanel's Metrics section provides deeper analysis tools:

Bandwidth - Monthly breakdown of HTTP, FTP, and email transfer with daily detail.

Awstats / Webalizer - Visitor analytics showing page views, unique visitors, referrers, and geographic data. Not as detailed as Google Analytics but useful for quick checks.

Raw Access Logs - Downloadable Apache access logs for custom analysis.

Errors - The last 300 lines of your Apache error log. Useful for diagnosing 500 errors and PHP issues.

Usage Questions?

If you're consistently hitting resource or space limits, we can help identify what's consuming the most resources and recommend optimization or a plan upgrade.

Open a Support Ticket