Specify usage analysis settings

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About checking Web site usage

With a SharePoint Team Services-compatible Web page editor program (such as Microsoft FrontPage 2002), you can view reports of how much your Web site is being used. You can see the number of visits and hits in daily, weekly, or monthly summaries. 

The Site Administration pages let you enable or disable collecting usage information for your Web site. You can also use these pages to specify how often usage information is collected and how long it is kept.

  1. On the Site Administration page, under Configure Usage Analysis Settings, click Change usage analysis settings.

  2. In the Usage Analysis area, select Onto enable usage analysis, or select Off to disable this feature. If you disabled usage analysis, skip to the last step. Otherwise, complete the following steps.

  3. In the Recurrence settings area, specify how often you want SharePoint Team Services to process the usage log file.

  4. In the Additional Usage Analysis Settings area, do one or both of the following:

    • If you want to retain usage data for a certain number of months only, click Automatically delete stored usage data after, and then enter the number of months that you want usage data saved.

    • If you want SharePoint Team Services to process information in 24-hour increments, click Process log file data for full days only.

    • If you would like one or more administrators to receive e-mail notification when usage analysis has completed, enter the administrator e-mail address(es) in the space provided.

  5. Click Submit.

Notes

  • If you don't see the Change usage analysis settings option, you are probably in a subweb and need to navigate to the top-level Web site of your server or virtual server. See your network administrator or ISP for more information.

  • Logging some usage information requires changes to the server software settings. See your site administrator or ISP for information on what types of usage information logging are enabled.