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SharePoint 2010: How to Use Web Analytics

SharePoint 2010: How to Use Web Analytics

You need to plan before you configure Web Analytics Service Application for SharePoint.

Why? The reason is simple, and Joel Oleson explains the reasons on this blog: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=515

The issues have not improved on SharePoint 2013. Check this out: http://www.sharepointjoel.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=655

My client obviously wanted to have Web Analytics to get information about their web pages when I was on vacation. So they configured the Web Analytics with a SharePoint Developer.

But they couldn’t open it because it was greyed out. So they thought everything went wrong and SharePoint isn't working, and they can’t get data …

Web Analytics on SharePoint 2010

But you have to start first by adding the 2 services “manually”:

  • Web Analytics Data Processing Service
  • Web Analytics Web Service

 

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Second, you can get data/reports by:

  • Central Administration
  • Site Collection Settings

 

Web Analytics on SharePoint 2010 3

 

These are the steps that occur:

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  • The user requests a page, and the action gets picked up by the Web Analytics service that runs on SharePoint.
  • The Web Analytics service logs this in the “.usage” files.
  • A Timer job called “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Usage Data Import” by default runs every 30 minutes. It imports the logs into the staging database.
  • Each night the “Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Usage Data Processing” Timer job runs and transforms the data into the reporting database.
  • The last run time of the import from staging and the aggregation is logged in the Settings table in the Reporting database.
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    Ed Price - MSFT edited Original. Comment: Converted to third person perspective. Updated grammar and clarity. Updated title to title casing and added clarity. Added tag.

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    Thanks Ed!

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