Configure MOSS 2007 Site Usage Reports

Posted on February 6, 2008 by Scott Wheeler

SharePoint 2007 has built in usage reports that can easily be enabled to allow site administrators and site collection administrators to monitor statistics about the use of their sites. These reports are NOT turned on by default when install MOSS 2007.

Three Quick Steps to Configure Site Usage Reporting

  1. Enable Usage Logging in Central Administration
    A. On the Central Administration home page, click Operations.
    B. On the Operations page, in the Logging and Reporting section, click Usage analysis processing.
    C. On the Usage Analysis Processing page, in the Logging Settings section, select Enable logging.
    D. Type a log file location and number of log files to create.
    E. In the Processing Settings section, select Enable usage analysis processing, and then select a time to run usage processing.
  2. Enable Usage Reporting on SSP Admin Page 
    A. On the SSP home page, in the Portal Usage Reporting section, click Usage reporting.
    B. On the Configure Advanced Usage Analysis Processing page, in the Processing Settings section, click Enable advanced usage analysis processing.
    C. In the Search Query Logging section, select Enable search query logging.
  3. Activate the Reporting Feature for the Site Collection
    A. On the Site Actions menu, click Site Settings.
    B. On the Site Settings page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click Site collection features.
    C. On the Site Collection Features page, click the Activate button for the Reporting feature.

After site usage reporting is enabled the site administrators and site collection administrators will be able to view reports detailing:

  • Requests and queries in the last day and the last 30 days
  • Average number of requests per day over the last 30 days
  • Requests per day over the last 30 days
  • Top page requests over the last 30 days
  • Top users over the last 30 days
  • Top referring hosts over the last 30 days
  • Top referring pages over the last 30 days
  • Top destination pages over the last 30 days
  • Top search queries for the last 30 days
  • Search results top destination pages
  • Number of search queries per day over the previous 30 days
  • Number of search queries per month over the previous 12 months
  • Top search queries over the previous 30 days
  • Search Queries per search scope over the previous 30 days

Site collection administrators will be able to view reports detailing:

  • Total amount of storage used by the site collection
  • Percent of storage space used by Web Discussions
  • Maximum storage space allowed
  • Number of users for all sites in the hierarchy
  • Total hits and recent bandwidth usage across all sites

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