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Understanding guideline analytics

Learn how to view page and document engagement, including views and attachment downloads, in your guidelines.

Guideline analytics helps you understand how people engage with your guidelines. You can measure how often pages and documents are viewed, track downloads of attachments included in your guidelines, and review activity over time.

Analytics are available at the page and document level, helping you understand which content people are using.

Availability: Guideline analytics is an Enterprise feature.

View guideline analytics

To view analytics for a specific page or document in your guideline:

  1. Open your guideline and go to the page or document you want to review.

  2. Open Settings in the bottom-left of the powerbar.

  3. Open the Analytics tab.

  4. Choose whether to view analytics for the current page or document.

  5. Select Views or Downloads to explore the available data.

You can adjust the reporting period using the date filter. Choose a preset of 30, 60, or 365 days, or select a custom range using the calendar. Select Apply to update the results.

Note: Guideline analytics is available only when viewing a page or document, not when viewing a cover page.

Understand your analytics

Views

The Views tab in your guideline analytics shows how people are accessing your guideline content during the selected period.

  • Page views: The number of times the selected page or document has been viewed, including repeat visits.

  • Unique visitors: The number of distinct visitors during the selected period, including logged-in and anonymous visitors.

  • Views over time: Shows how viewing activity changes during the selected period.

  • Visitor type: Distinguishes between logged-in and anonymous visitors.

Downloads

The Downloads tab lists downloadable attachments on the selected page or document, showing each file’s name and the number of times it was downloaded during the selected period. It does not show a breakdown of download activity over time.

Download metrics are only available for assets added via attachment blocks. Regular assets referenced in documents are not tracked in this way. Views of embedded images or other media aren’t counted as downloads. Downloads from libraries or projects are tracked separately in asset analytics.

Explore more insights

For a broader view of guideline performance across your entire brand, open the Analytics dashboard from your account menu. Here, you can explore traffic across pages and access more detailed reporting.

You can also export available analytics data as CSV files for further analysis.

Explore asset analytics and activity

Individual asset analytics

To review the performance of an individual asset, open it in a library or project and click on Analytics in the powerbar. The analytics panel shows information such as asset views, downloads, and external usage.

Availability: Individual asset analytics are available to editors, owners, and account admins.

Asset audit trail

For a more granular view of individual user activity, open Asset audit trail from the asset’s powerbar. You can filter activity by user, activity (such as downloads and sharing), and time period.

Learn more about the asset audit trail feature.

Availability: The asset audit trail feature is available to library editors, owners, and reviewers on Enterprise plans.

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