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How to check the reports in Drupal
Drupal creates various reports which will help you in maintaining and managing your site. To view the reports, log in to the admin panel of your Drupal and click on the Reports tab in the toolbar. On the page that is displayed there are buttons for several different reports.
The Status report displays the version number of your Drupal installation and whether it's up to date. It also gives general information about your Drupal hosting account (PHP version, database system and version, etc.). You can use the Available updates report to check whether everything on your site is up to date, including third party modules and themes. By using the respective button you can check for updates manually. The Recent log messages report lists different system events (e.g. content changes, user sessions, cron runs, etc.). The logs are kept in the database. To manage the logging settings go to Configuration tab>Logging and errors. On the page that opens you can use the respective drop-down menu to set the number of log messages to be kept in the database.
The Field list report shows all the fields that are used in your Drupal. It lists the machine name of each field, the field type of the particular field and where it's used (e.g. content type, taxonomy, user). The reports Top 'access denied' errors and Top 'page not found' errors list respectively all the pages on your site that users have tried to open without having the permissions to do so, and the pages that users have tried to visit but which simply don't exist on your site. The Top search phrases report shows the words and phrases that users have searched for on your site. It displays how many times users have searched for a specific phrase/word, and whether they've searched for content or users.
Drupal has a core module called Statistics. It's disabled by default. If you enable it, four more reports will be added: Recent hits, Top referrers, Top pages, Top visitors. You can check them by clicking on the Reports tab and then on the button for the particular report. To manage the settings of this module go to Configuration tab>Statistics. To be able to use these four reports you have to enable the access log from the settings.
There's a Tracker core module which is disabled by default too. You can use it to track the most recent content (newly created or edited). After you enable the module just go to yourdomain.com/tracker. There are no settings for that module.
For more details and screenshots check out the Drupal reports and statistics tutorial.