Monday, October 17, 2011

Site Usage Reports in SharePoint portals

Overview of usage reports

The following usage reports are available:

  • Site usage report Site administrators, including administrators of the Shared Services Administration site, can view usage reporting for their site by clicking Site usage reports in the Site Administration section of the Site Settings page.
  • Site collection usage report Site collection administrators for most site collections can view usage reporting by clicking Site collection usage reports in the Site Collection Administration section of the Site Settings page.
  • Site collection usage summary Site collection administrators for the Shared Services Administration site and individuals with personal sites can view the Site Collection Usage Summary page by clicking Usage summary in the Site Collection Administration section of the Site Settings page.

Search usage reports are also available and can be used to improve the relevance of search results to improve discoverability and collaboration of your personalized content and sites.

View usage reports

The following information is available in usage reports for both sites and site collections:

  • Usage summary view:
    • Requests and queries in the last day and the last 30 days
    • A site collection summary including the following information:
      • Average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
      • Number of distinct users over the past 30 days
      • Number of distinct users yesterday
      • Number of requests yesterday
      • Number of queries yesterday
      • Number of queries over the past 30 days
    • A chart of the average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
    • A chart of requests per day over the last 30 days
    • A list of the top page requests over the last 30 days
    • A list of top users over the last 30 days
    • A chart of top referring hosts over the last 30 days
    • A chart of top referring pages over the last 30 days
    • A list of top destination pages over the last 30 days
  • Requests view:
    • A chart of the average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
    • A chart of requests per day over the last 30 days
    • A list of the top page requests over the last 30 days
  • Users view:
    • A chart of unique users over the past 30 days
    • A chart of the average number of unique users per day by month
    • User activity over the last 30 days.
  • Referrers view:
    • A chart of top referring hosts over the last 30 days
    • A chart of top referring pages over the last 30 days
  • Destination pages view:
    • A list of top destination pages over the last 30 days
    • Average requests per day over the past 30 days for the top destination pages
  • Home page view:
    • Number of home page requests for the past 30 days
    • Average home page requests per day by month
    • Unique users for the home page over the past 30 days
    • Average number of unique users per day by month
    • Top referring pages to home page by average requests per day over the last 30 days
    • Top destination pages from home page by average requests per day over the last 30 days

Site collection administrators, but not site administrators, can monitor usage data for search queries and search results for all sites in the site collection. Search usage reporting must be enabled. The following additional information is available in site collection usage reports:

  • Additional information in the usage summary view:
    • Top queries for the last 30 days
    • Search results top destination pages
  • Search queries view:
    • Number of queries per day over the previous 30 days
    • Number of queries per month over the previous 12 months
    • Top queries for the last 30 days
    • Queries per search scope over the previous 30 days
  • Search results view:
    • The top destination pages of search results
    • Queries with zero results
    • Most clicked best bets
    • Queries with zero best bets

View site collection usage summary page

The following information is available in the site collection usage summary that is available for the Shared Services Administration site and individual personal sites.

  • Total amount of storage used by the site collection
  • Percent of storage space used by Web Discussions
  • Maximum storage space allowed
  • Number of users for all sites in the hierarchy
  • Total hits and recent bandwidth usage across all sites

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