Configuring analytics in Brightspot
The Analytics plugin for Brightspot accumulates and reports on visitors’ viewing patterns within your site. You can generate analytics accumulated by Brightspot (known as “Brightspot Analytics”), or retrieve analytics from Google.
This section describes how to configure Brightspot to display page-view counts in the search panel and graphical analytics in an asset's content edit page.
To configure item-level analytics:
- Click > Admin > Sites & Settings > Sites > Global.
- Under CMS, expand Analytics.
- Using the following table as a reference, configure the analytics integration.
- Click Save.
Brightspot Analytics settings - CMS tab
Field |
Description |
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Task Host | Name or address of host running the task that updates the page views. |
Page Views Supplier | Supplier of page views.
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Interval | Unit of time used to calculate the number of page views appearing in the search panel and in dynamic lists. See Including page views in the search panel and Sorting dynamic lists by page views. Available only if Page Views is set to Brightspot Analytics or Google Analytics. |
Amount | Number of intervals. For example, if you set Interval to Days and Amount to 2 , then the Page Views field in the search panel and dynamic lists reflects the number of page views over the past two days. Available only if Page Views is set to Brightspot Analytics or Google Analytics. |
Disable Scripts | If toggled on, disables the JavaScript that triggers the collection of all data by Brightspot Analytics. The data remains uncollected until you turn this toggle off. Also, historical data will continue to be displayed but will not be updated until this toggle is turned off. |
Video Analytics Supplier | Source provider of video view data.
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You can also configure the sources for your search and social traffic data, which can be used in the Report widget on your dashboards.
To configure search and social traffic sources:
- Click > Admin > Sites & Settings > Sites > Global.
- Under Integrations, expand Analytics.
- Using the following table as a reference, configure the integration. Some of the settings at the global level can be overridden at the site level.
- Click Save.
Brightspot Analytics settings - Integrations tab
Field |
Description |
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Search Sources | Search engines from which traffic arrives to the item. If blank, Brightspot tracks incoming traffic referred by Google, Bing, and Yahoo. You can override this setting at the site level. |
Social Sources | Social networks from which traffic arrives to the item. If blank, Brightspot tracks incoming traffic referred by Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. You can override this setting at the site level. |