# Viewing Site Performance

Checking site performance can reveal how your site is performing and where potential bottlenecks are. IIS offers a variety of ways to view the performance of your site.

To view site performance

1. In Personal Web Manager, view the performance monitoring graph and current statistics in the Main panel.

- Active connections specifies how many connections are currently in use transferring data.
- Started at lists the date and time the Web server process was last started.
- Visitors is the number of unique addresses that have connected to the server since the server was last started.

Note If the same person visits the site more than once, subsequent visits are not counted. Only 50 addresses are stored for comparison. Repeat visitors may be counted again if more than 50 unique addresses have been added to the list since their last visit.

- Requests is the total number of requests that have been received since the server was last started.
- Bytes served is the total amount of data that has been sent since the server was last started.
- Most concurrent connections is the number of connections opened to the server simultaneously.

2. Click the arrow at the side of the View Statistics list box to view performance over different increments of time.

Related Topics

- For information about logging site traffic, see About Advanced Settings.
- For instructions on how to enable logging, see Logging Site Activity.

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