diff --git a/install/sql/incremental/upd_dev_collection.sql b/install/sql/incremental/upd_dev_collection.sql
index 1ccef0797d7b6c0847d8b2669223ccfee65652a4..44383d22f0bd9e9e89bfc12c95e2f8d40382cbae 100644
--- a/install/sql/incremental/upd_dev_collection.sql
+++ b/install/sql/incremental/upd_dev_collection.sql
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 ALTER TABLE `web_domain` CHANGE `folder_directive_snippets` `folder_directive_snippets` TEXT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NULL;
 ALTER TABLE `web_domain` ADD `log_retention` INT NOT NULL DEFAULT '30' AFTER `https_port`;
+ALTER TABLE `web_domain` CHANGE `stats_type` `stats_type` VARCHAR(255) CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci NULL DEFAULT 'awstats';
diff --git a/install/sql/ispconfig3.sql b/install/sql/ispconfig3.sql
index f2f497ae10ff4acda8670daa61d788263d7ff4e0..52b9bebc535d1a10838e19ce04a2f59fc02a252b 100644
--- a/install/sql/ispconfig3.sql
+++ b/install/sql/ispconfig3.sql
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ CREATE TABLE `web_domain` (
   `ssl_key` mediumtext NULL,
   `ssl_action` varchar(16) NULL,
   `stats_password` varchar(255) default NULL,
-  `stats_type` varchar(255) default 'webalizer',
+  `stats_type` varchar(255) default 'awstats',
   `allow_override` varchar(255) NOT NULL default 'All',
   `apache_directives` mediumtext,
   `nginx_directives` mediumtext,
diff --git a/interface/web/sites/form/web_vhost_domain.tform.php b/interface/web/sites/form/web_vhost_domain.tform.php
index 042fca8f1bf600ee9cb2cf75772e061c9237b7ac..4b709eeda40bd92441e52b167a0bf63201dabb6e 100644
--- a/interface/web/sites/form/web_vhost_domain.tform.php
+++ b/interface/web/sites/form/web_vhost_domain.tform.php
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ $form["tabs"]['stats'] = array (
 		'stats_type' => array (
 			'datatype' => 'VARCHAR',
 			'formtype' => 'SELECT',
-			'default' => 'webalizer',
+			'default' => 'awstats',
 			'value'  => array('webalizer' => 'Webalizer', 'awstats' => 'AWStats', '' => 'None')
 		),
 		//#################################