Site-level analytics
You can configure and view reports that display site-level analytics in a variety of graphical and tabular formats. You can also download the analytics in comma-separated values (CSV) format for analysis in a spreadsheet.
The following illustrations are examples of the many site-level analytics you can generate.
 Figure 108. Items added by content type |  Figure 109. Traffic source, all content types, graphical format |
 Figure 110. Article page views by unit time |  Figure 111. Traffic source, all content types, tabular format |
Configuring site-level Report widgets
Administrators perform this task.
Site-level analytics appear in a Report widget on an editor's dashboard. This section describes how to configure Report widgets to display the required analytics.
If your version of Brightspot is missing any of the following configuration options, contact your Brightspot representative.
From the Navigation Menu, select Sites & Settings.
Select a site for which you want to configure a Report widget, or select Global to configure the widget for all sites.
Create a custom dashboard (see Custom dashboards) that includes the Report widget. The following illustration shows default configuration options for the Report widget.
Using the following tables as a reference, enter settings for the Report widget.
Click Save.
Field | Description |
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Heading | Name of the report. |
Reporter | Type of report (area, line, tabular, etc.) You may need to enable the plugins Brightspot:Reporting:Core and Brightspot:Reporting:NVD3 to view all of the available report types. |
Supplier | Report's data source.
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Field | Description |
|---|---|
Content Types | Content types included in the report. |
Number of Days | Number of days' activity included in the report. |
Segmentation | Displays a different data series by content type or field value.
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Field | Description |
|---|---|
Series | Source of data appearing in report.
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Aggregate | Key by which Brightspot groups the data.
Grouping is not available for some series. |
Period | Date range included in the report. For more information about this field, see Understanding time intervals for analytics. |
Field | Description |
|---|---|
Channels | Avenue by which visitor arrived to your site.
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Period | Date range included in the report. For more information about this field, see Understanding time intervals for analytics. |
Viewing site-level analytics
If your dashboard does not have the analytics widget you require, ask your Brightspot administrator to create the widget, or create one yourself in a custom dashboard. For details, see Custom dashboards.
Understanding time intervals for analytics
One of the settings you can configure for accumulating analytics is the time interval.
Past Days, Past Hours, Past Months, and Past Years—Use one of these options to accumulate analytics over a unit of time that you specify.
Set Day, Set Month, Set Week, and Past Years—Use one of these options to accumulate analytics for a specific unit of time.
Referring to the previous illustration, Brightspot accumulates analytics for the past 30 days using a clock in the eastern United States (UTC − 4 or 5 hours, depending on daylight savings or standard time).
Latest and earliest times in a reporting period
Brightspot applies the following logic to determine the latest and earliest times in a reporting period:
Capture the current time.
Compute the latest time in the interval by rounding down the current time to the requested unit.
Compute the earliest time in the interval by subtracting the number of units (less one) from the latest time.
The following table provides examples for determining the reporting period for hours, days, months, and years.
If you want analytics for the past… | and the current time is… | Latest time in reporting interval | Earliest time in reporting interval |
|---|---|---|---|
Seven hours | August 15, 2019, 8:15 AM | August 15, 2019, 8:00 AM | August 15, 2019, 1:00 AM |
Seven days | August 15, 2019, 8:15 AM | August 15, 2019, 12:00 AM | August 8 2019, 12:00 AM |
Seven months | August 15, 2019, 8:15 AM | August 1, 2019, 12:00 AM | January 1, 2019, 12:00 AM |
Seven years | August 15, 2019, 8:15 AM | January 1, 2019, 12:00 AM | January 1, 2012, 12:00 AM |
The following diagram illustrates the reporting interval for a seven-day report. The request was made during the day, and Brightspot accumulates data starting from the previous complete day for a total of seven days.
Adjusting for time zones in reporting periods
The times in the previous table are server times—the time on the Brightspot server. If your Brightspot server is in New York, then the server's clock is most likely running on Eastern Standard Time or Eastern Daylight Time. (You can determine your server's time zone by selecting Navigation Menu > Sites & Settings > Global > Front-End > Time Zone.)
Suppose one of your sites addresses a market in London (Western European Time) and your Brightspot server is in New York (Eastern Standard Time). In this scenario, Brightspot accumulates the analytics after adjusting the counts for the five-hour difference.
In the previous illustration, Brightspot adjusts the intervals forward by five hours (using the purple intervals), and then accumulates the analytics.