Page View Configuration

Owned by Andy Ng.
Last updated: Mar 04, 2020
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Go go Confluence Administration Page, on left menu, click on Page View Configuration to go to Page View Configuration page

   

As an administrators you can configure permissions for Page View Statistics which these options:

+ Grant access to Page View Statistics page to: choose list of groups or users to grant access to Page View Statistics page

+ Allow space administrators to access Page View Statistics page: if it is checked, space administrators of each space can access Page View Statistics of that space only.

+ Allow all users to view total number of views of each page: if it is checked, users can view the number of views in Confluence pages

   

+ Allow all users to view statistics of each page: if it is checked, you can click on the number of views in Confluence pages to view Page Statistics 

+ Don't store information of users who visited pages: if it is checked, users who visited a page will not be tracked. It will be shown as "Authorized User".

+ Track page views for: 

          - All spaces: track page views for all pages of all spaces

          - ONLY these spaces: Administrators can choose which spaces will be tracked page views. Only page views of selected spaces will be collected.

          - EXCEPT these spaces: Administrators can choose which spaces will NOT be tracked page views. 

          - Pesonal spaces: track page views for personal spaces or not

   

        

+ Map API: This setting is used to display page views locations on Google Map. Keep Google Maps JavaScript API Key blank to turn off this feature.

Add Google Map JavaScript API key to view your page views on map.

Get API key here https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/get-api-key

and create Billing account here: https://developers.google.com/maps/gmp-get-started

a) Click on GET A KEY button to open a popup

    


b) Click on the drop down list and click on Create a new project

   


c) Type the name of your project and click CREATE AND ENABLE API

    


d) After clicking Create and Enable API, a pop-up will open and show your API key

    


e) Copy this API Key and input to Google Maps JavaScript API Key of Page View Configuration page, then click Save

    


Pageviews' location are getting via IP Geolocation API service. By default, we use https://reallyfreegeoip.org/json/, but use can use other services. For more information please read IP Geolocation API.

After setting successfully, you can view the map by clicking on map icon  in Page Views Statistics page, map will be display like below: