Web Analytics in Office 365 : SharePoint Online

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Since the introduction of External Sharing feature and Simple Public facing site in SharePoint Online, many of my partners and customers are asking questions on report that give details on no. of times a site is accessed, no. of unique users/visitors...basically features related to Web Analytics.

Well we can get this kind of reporting out of the box in SharePoint Online itself. Follow the below simple steps to know more.

Step1 : Open any of your Private Site Collection or Public site in SharePoint Online. ( Yes, we have this reporting even for simple public website in SPO :) )

Step2: Your Private Site Collection URL will be https://something.sharepoint.com/Pages/default.aspx or https://something.sharepoint.com/sites/anything/pages/default.aspx  or https://something.sharepoint.com/teams/anything/pages/default.aspx

  • Replace Pages/Default.aspx with _layouts/usagedetails.aspx and you will see the below screen

 

  • Make the similar URL changes to the public facing site in SPO and you will get report for it.

Step3 : Now as you know the URL, create a Hyper Link on your Private SharePoint Site and get access to the report anytime :)

 

Happy Reporting!!..

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 08, 2012
    Your web analytics series is fantastic this helps me out quite a bit because I want to optimize my analytics to really see what is going on with my blog that is hosted through Google  

  • Anonymous
    January 15, 2012
    Try CardioLog analytics, which helps enterprises to better engage their users / customers and provides detailed analytics and usage reports via the following analytics reports: www.intlock.com/.../Reports-Gallery.asp. For further information, please contact info@intlock.com, or visit http://www.intlock.com

  • Anonymous
    July 15, 2012
    Yes Thanks for the tip. Hassan Cairo

  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2012
    How do we get standard users to view this report?  We are having issues finding security settings within the O365 portal for this - and I don't want to grant Admin rights to a standard user.

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2013
    Very nice article. I'm working with branding for the public facing sites, let me introduce our work, take a look at http://bindtuning.com/ We have a tuning tool where you can fully customize a theme for SharePoint and besides being responsive the theme include a lot of features.

  • Anonymous
    August 20, 2014
    Hi, I'm coming (late) to Office365/SPOnline world from on prem SharePoint 2010. When I try to access the web analytics in O365 I get the message "Usage logging is disabled in this farm. Please contact your farm administrator for more details. " Has the site web analytics feature been disabled in O365 since this blog post was originally published ?

  • Anonymous
    September 30, 2014
    I have the same issue as Counie, is this a feature that now needs to be enabled somehow?

  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2014
    Ditto for me.  Can't find any way to turn it on.

  • Anonymous
    March 18, 2015
    I have found the same. Usage Details appear to have been disabled in the current version of SharePoint Online.

  • Anonymous
    March 26, 2015
    The comment has been removed

  • Anonymous
    June 26, 2015
    This feature is not available in SharePoint Online version.

  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2015
    This helped me… Site Settings > Popularity Trends [or] Popularity and Search Reports (from Top Level Site) en.share-gate.com/.../new-sharepoint-2013-analytics