# Analytics Page Traffic - Preferences

The Analytics Page traffic portlet reports the total number of hits per MyPage or Community page and the total number of users that have viewed each page.

Individual MyPages do not appear in the report; instead, MyPage data is summarized and appears in the report as a single MyPage. Select the Include My Pages check box to include MyPage data in the report.

Note: To enable readability, the graphic charts display a maximum of 25 data points, beginning with the first in time. For example, if you configure settings for a bar chart report for a duration of 3 days and group by hour, your request is for 72 data points; only the first 25 hours are displayed in the bar chart. In tabular reports, the report includes a maximum of 1000 data points. However, when you export data for the report to Excel, the report includes all data points.

The following sections describe the attributes that you can set to customize the report.

## Display Options

You can choose to display your report in the following formats:

- tabular
- pie
- bar
- line

You can select the following sets of pages.

Selection | Description
Top Pages | Displays the pages that have either received the most hits or have been viewed by the most users. You can specify that you want to display the top 5, 10, 15, or 20 pages.
Top Entry Pages | Displays the pages that have either received the most hits or have been viewed by the most unique users as the first page during a portal visit. You can specify that you want to display the top 5, 10, 15, or 20 pages.
Top Exit Pages | Displays the pages that have either received the most hits or have been viewed by the most unique users as the last page during a portal visit. You can specify that you want to display the top 5, 10, 15, or 20 pages.
Bottom Communities | Displays the pages that have either received the smallest number of hits or have been viewed by the smallest number of users. You can specify that you want to display the bottom 5, 10, 15, or 20 pages.
All Pages | Displays either page hit or user information for all pages. Only available in tabular view.

## You can specify the following metrics.

Option | Description
Hits | Displays the total page views for the page.
Users | Displays the total number of users that have viewed the page.

## Filter Options

You can filter the report according to the following properties.

Filter Type | Description
Date Range | Allows you to filter data based on a range of dates. If you select Specify Date Range, you can choose the start and end date.
Authentication Source | Allows you to filter data based on the authentication source.
User Property | Allows you to filter data based on the user properties defined in your portal. After selecting the desired property, select Contains or Does Not Contain and type the property value by which you want to filter.

## Click Select Communities to choose one or more communities whose page traffic information you want to view. If you do not choose a specific community, the report displays data for all communities.

## Select the Include My Pages check box to view aggregated hit data for MyPages.

## Grouping Options

You can group reported data according to the following attributes.

Property | Description
Time Interval | This option groups the data by the selected time period. A line chart must have a time interval group by parameter selected.
User Property | This option groups the data by the selected user property. Users are grouped by the property value in their user profile.

## Reporting Options

Enter a title for the report display and specify whether to allow users to specify a custom date range.

## Managing Access to Analytics Portlets

Analytics reports are intended to make usage metrics visible to a limited set of administrative users who perform particular business functions, such as capacity planning, QoS analysis, ROI analysis, “best bet” customization for Search, and the like.

The Analytics Console and portlet reports contain usage data that is valuable for enterprise portal analysis but might be regarded as private or sensitive to portal users. For example, Search, Document, Community, and Portlet reports can be configured to display activity metrics for a particular user, based on several user properties, such as Email Address, First Name, or Last Name.

To protect security and privacy interests before you roll-out Analytics reports:

1. Manage administrative access to Analytics Console and portlet templates.

To ensure only a limited number of administrative users can add the Analytics Console community to their My Communities and create portlets based on the Analytics Portlet Templates, create a new administrative group and manage group membership accordingly. Members of this administrative group require Read access to the Analytics Console community and Select access to the Admin Objects directory that contains the portlet templates.

2. Manage non-administrative user access to Analytics Console data.

If you are allowing non-administrative users to add the Analytics Console to their My Communities, configure the console’s security accordingly in Analytics Administration. For more information, see Security Settings.

3. Manage user access to Analytics portlets.

When you create portlets, configure metrics that do not contain private or sensitive data unless such a view is particularly intended. If the metrics in the report do contain private or sensitive data, configure security so that only appropriate, specified users have Select access and can therefore add the portlet to their My Pages.

4. Ensure that guest users are never allowed to add Analytics portlets to their My Pages.

For information on creating portlets from portlet templates, see the Administrator Guide for BEA AquaLogic Interaction.

For information on creating administrative groups and managing user and guest access, see the Administrator Guide for BEA AquaLogic Interaction.