SharePoint Manager Plus helps you review on-prem SharePoint Server farm, web application, and content database structures from a single console, without switching between Central Administration pages or relying on repeated PowerShell exports. The Web Application Statistics report, one of more than 140 SharePoint reports, gives administrators a centralized view of structural counts across the web application layer.
Why you need a web application statistics report
In a SharePoint Server farm, every web application is a distinct content hosting boundary. It determines how content databases, site collections, sites, and lists are distributed across the application tier. Over time, that boundary grows as site collections multiply, sites branch into subsites, and lists accumulate across the environment.
SharePoint Server exposes web application, content database, and related farm data through Central Administration and PowerShell. But those native views are still spread across multiple pages and cmdlets. They do not provide one ready-made structural summary of every web application in a single report. Repeating manual collection across every web application in the farm makes cross-application comparison harder than it should be.
A statistical report for web applications replaces that manual aggregation with a consolidated structural view across the farm:
- Compare structural load across web applications: See how content databases, site collections, sites, and lists are distributed across web applications and identify applications carrying disproportionate structural load.
- Support storage and capacity planning: Use site collection counts and list totals per web application to identify where structural growth may require closer review.
- Scope migration analysis: Use structural counts per web application as a pre-migration inventory baseline without relying on manually assembled PowerShell output.
- Detect structural growth: Compare current statistics with earlier exports to identify additions that require review.
- Maintain accurate documentation for audits: Produce a repeatable, exportable structural inventory of the web application layer for governance and audit discussions.
What is the Web Application Statistics report in SharePoint Manager Plus?
The Web Application Statistics report provides a consolidated structural inventory of every web application in a SharePoint Server farm. It includes the name of each web application along with the total number of content databases, site collections, sites, and lists it hosts, giving administrators a single ready-made view of structural counts for each web application without having to navigate into each one individually or aggregate PowerShell output manually.
What does the Web Application Statistics report show?
Using SharePoint Manager Plus, you can filter the Web Application Statistics report with the following field:
- Farm: Select the SharePoint Server farm from which you want to pull web application structural data.
The Web Application Statistics report displays the following details for every web application in the farm.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| Web Application Name | The display name of the SharePoint web application, used to identify it within the farm and distinguish it from other web applications in reports and documentation. |
| Total Content Databases | The number of content databases attached to the web application, indicating how site collection data is distributed across SQL Server databases. |
| Total Site Collections | The cumulative number of site collections provisioned within the web application, giving administrators a measure of its content scope. |
| Total Sites | The total number of SharePoint sites across all site collections within the web application. |
| Total Lists | The cumulative count of all lists across every site within the web application, including document libraries and custom lists. |
Native SharePoint administration and PowerShell vs. SharePoint Manager Plus
In SharePoint Server, administrators can review web application data through Central Administration and PowerShell. Those native options are useful, but they are still spread across multiple admin pages and cmdlets. They do not provide one ready-made structural summary of every web application in a single report view.
PowerShell can help bridge those gaps. Cmdlets such as Get-SPWebApplication, Get-SPContentDatabase, Get-SPSite, and related commands can retrieve much of this data, but consolidating it into a repeatable cross-application inventory still requires scripting effort, formatting, and ongoing maintenance. SharePoint Manager Plus reduces that overhead by bringing this view into a single report that administrators can run, filter, export, and schedule without building the report from scratch each time.
Benefits of SharePoint Manager Plus' Web Appliction Statistics report over other SharePoint reports
With SharePoint Manager Plus, your report combines the depth of PowerShell with the convenience of a centralized admin center.
| Capability | SharePoint admin center | PowerShell | The SharePoint Manager Plus advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Report accessibility | ❌ Manual filtering is required every time | ❌ Script execution is required for every run | ✅ Get one-click access to categorized reports |
| Custom reports | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Create custom reports by saving granular, attribute-based conditional filters |
| Report exports | ✅ Reports can be exported only in CSV or JSON formats | ✅ Requires additional scripting to format and export data | ✅ Reports can be exported in CSV, HTML, PDF, and XLSX formats |
| Emailing reports to admins | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ Send report emails to stakeholders and admins in preferred formats |
| Automated report generation | ❌ This requires technical scripting or separate complex add-ons | ❌ This requires Task Scheduler or Azure Automation | ✅ Schedule multiple reports that can be generated, filtered, emailed, and exported between defined periods automatically |
For a more detailed comparison, check out our page on how to audit a site collection.
Features that enhance the Web Application Statistics report
SharePoint Manager Plus provides several built-in tools to help you document, schedule, and act on the structural data surfaced by the Web Application Statistics report.
- Automated report generation: Schedule the report to run daily, weekly, or monthly so the structural composition of every web application in the farm is continuously tracked.
- Export reports: Download the Web Application Statistics report in CSV, PDF, HTML, or XLSX formats for distribution to infrastructure teams, migration architects, and auditors.
- Email alerts for critical changes: Set up alerts to inform administrators of significant changes inside web applications, including creations, updates, and deletions.
- Custom reports: Customize the fields and filters in the Web Application Statistics report, then save your preferred settings as a custom report for easy access whenever needed.
Reports that complement the Web Application Statistics report
If you are documenting your SharePoint Server farm, managing capacity, or preparing for migration, SharePoint Manager Plus provides several reports that extend the structural picture delivered by the Web Application Statistics report.
- Farm Statistics report: Provides the top-level structural overview of the entire farm, including server count, total web applications, total content databases, total site collections, and total sites.
- Site Collection Statistics report: Delivers storage consumption and structural metrics at the site collection level within each web application, helping you move from web application totals to collection-level detail.
- Site Statistics report: Provides per-site structural breakdowns within each site collection, including subsite counts, list counts, document library counts, and URL configuration.
- Site User Statistics report: Shows user and group membership counts for every site across the farm, helping administrators connect web application structure with access breadth.
- SharePoint permissions reports: Detail permission assignments across sites, libraries, and items throughout each web application, helping administrators understand both what each web application contains and who can reach it.
Other features of SharePoint Manager Plus
- SharePoint management: Grant, remove, or copy SharePoint permissions, and manage group members in bulk without relying on complex scripts, simplifying your SharePoint administration.
- SharePoint reporting: Access over 140 prebuilt and custom reports for SharePoint—including permissions, site usage, content inventory, and security insights—all from a centralized dashboard.
- SharePoint auditing: Maintain a comprehensive, searchable audit trail of all activities across your SharePoint environment, including user actions, permission changes, and content modifications.
- SharePoint alerting: Get real-time alerts on critical events such as permission changes, suspicious user activities, site access anomalies, and policy violations.
- Delegated administration: Empower help desk technicians with granular, role-based access to perform specific SharePoint administrative tasks, without elevating native privileges.
- SharePoint migration: Simplify SharePoint migration by enabling seamless content and permission migration across sites and tenants, with minimal downtime and full visibility into migration progress.
