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
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Browse to the topmpost page in the section you want to view stats for.
Tip: To view statistics for your entire website, navigate to your home page.
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Go to Edit > View page statistics:
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On the Stats tab, you see a report of page views for the last seven days:
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Use the From and To date pickers to change the start and end points for the reporting period, up to a maximuim of 180 days.
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The report shows information for This page and sub-pages by default. To see a report for the current page only, select Just this page from the Scope drop-down list.
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By default, visits by search engines and users with admin permissions are excluded from the report. To include either of these, select the relevant checkbox.
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When you've finished specifying the options for the report, select Show statistics.
Page views breakdown
To see a breakdown of visitors by various categories:
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Select Show user types to see a breakdown of page views by students, staff and visitors not signed in on the Warwick website.
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Select Show user location to see a breakdown of page views by location - campus, off-campus or other.
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Select Show as a percentage 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:
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The report shows the top ten most viewed pages.
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To view the statistics for a specific page, select its name in the list.
Most viewed sections
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To see the most popular sections on your website, select the Top sections section to expand it:
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The report shows the top ten most viewed sections.
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To view the statistics for a specific section, select its name in the list.
Most downloaded files
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To see the most commonly-downloaded files on your website, select the Top files section to expand it:
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The report shows the top ten most downloaded files.
Missing pages
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Select the Missing pages section to expand it:
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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.
Tip: 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
Expand the How people got here section to view a report showing how visitors arrived at your page, known in web analytics as a 'referral'.
Referrals can be the 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 the Download data button under Page views breakdown.
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.