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 menu > 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
Task Host	Name or address of host running the task that updates the page views.
Page Views Supplier	Supplier of page views. None—Page-view data is accumulated by Brightspot Analytics, but not displayed anywhere within Brightspot Brightspot Analytics—Brightspot collects the page-view data and displays results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form. Google Analytics—Brightspot retrieves the page-view data from Google Analytics, and displays the results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form. For information about integrating Google Analytics with Brightspot, see Configuring Google analytics.
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. None—Video view data is accumulated by Brightspot Analytics, but not displayed anywhere within Brightspot. Brightspot Analytics—Brightspot collects the video-view data and displays results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form.

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:

Note

The fields configured below are only used by Brightspot Analytics and have no bearing on the data imported from Google Analytics.

Click menu > 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
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.

Note

If you add any values to these fields, you override the default settings as shown in the table. Adding additional search or social sources requires that you individually add all of the search and social sources from which you want to collect data, including the defaults (such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo). You add additional sources by clicking add_circle, then adding the desired domain.

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