View basic statistics in SiteBuilder
Use the Stats tab in SiteBuilder to see information about your website traffic such as page views, most viewed pages or files, and a breakdown of views by students and staff. If you need anything more than basic statistics, we recommend you use Google Analytics with SiteBuilder.
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Choose a reporting period and see page views
- To view statistics for your website, go to your home page. Alternatively, to view statistics for a particular section, go to the topmost page in that section.
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Go to Edit > View page statistics. You can see a report of page views for the last seven days on the Stats tab:
- Use the From and To date pickers to choose the reporting period, up to a maximum of 180 days.
- The report shows information for the current page and all sub-pages by default. To see a report for the current page only, select Just this page from the Scope drop-down list.
- By default, visits by search engines and anyone with edit or admin permissions are excluded from the report. To include either of these, select the checkboxes Include search engines and Include editors.
- When you have finished specifying the options, select Show statistics to run the report.
Audience and location breakdown
- Select Show user types below the Page views breakdown heading. The table shows a breakdown of page views by students, staff and people not signed in to the Warwick website.
- Select Show user location to see a breakdown of the page views by location - campus, off campus, or other.
- Select the Show as percent of total to see the percentage of users for each category instead of displaying the actual numbers.
Most viewed pages
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To see the most popular pages on your website, select the Top pages section to expand it. The report shows the top ten most viewed pages:
- To view the statistics for a page listed in the Top pages section, select a page name.
Most viewed sections
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To see the most popular sections on your website, select the Top sections to expand it. The report shows the top ten most viewed sections:
- To view the statistics for a section listed in the Top sections, select a URL.
Most downloaded files
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To see the most downloaded files, select the Top files section to expand it. The report shows the top ten most downloaded files:
Missing pages
- Select the Missing pages section to expand it. The report shows pages or files that do not exist, which people have tried to view. Visitors may have mistyped a URL in their browser, bookmarked a page that has since moved to a new location or followed a broken link.
- If you have a significant number of visits to a deleted page, consider replacing it with a forwarding page that redirects the visitor to the information elsewhere on your website.
Referrals
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Select the How people got here section to expand it. The report shows you how people arrived at your page, known in web analytics as a ‘referral’. Referrals can be a result of:
- using a search engine
- typing the page's URL
- following a bookmark
- following a link from another page
Download a report as a CSV file
- To download the page views report, select Download data button below the Page views breakdown section.
- To download a report for any of Top pages, Top sections, Top files, Missing pages or How people got here, expand the relevant section and select Download data.