Configuring analytics in Brightspot

Brightspot accumulates and reports on visitors’ viewing patterns within your site. You can generate analytics accumulated by Brightspot (known as “Brightspot Analytics”), or retrieve analytics from an integration with Google.

This section describes how to configure Brightspot to display page-view counts in the search panel and graphical analytics in an asset's content edit page.

To configure item-level analytics:

Click menu > Admin > Sites & Settings > Sites > Global.
Under CMS, expand Analytics.
Using the following table as a reference, configure the analytics.
Click Save.

Analytics settings - CMS tab

Field	Description
Task Host	Name or address of host running the task that updates the page views.
Page Views Supplier	Supplier of page views. None—Page-view data is accumulated byBrightspotAnalytics, but not displayed anywhere withinBrightspot. Brightspot Analytics—Brightspot collects the page-view data and displays results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form. Google Analytics 4—Brightspot retrieves the page-view data using Google Analytics 4, and displays the results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form. For information about integrating Google Analytics 4 with Brightspot, see Adding the Google Analytics 4 integration. Google Analytics: Universal Analytics—Brightspot retrieves the page-view data from Google Analytics: Universal Analytics, and displays the results in the search panel and in an asset's content edit form. For information about integrating Google Analytics: Universal Analytics with Brightspot, see Configuring Google analytics. Note Google discontinued support for Universal Analytics in July 2023. To retrieve Google Analytics data in Brightspot, select Google Analytics 4.
Interval	Unit of time used to calculate the number of page views appearing in the search panel and in dynamic lists. See Including page views in the search panel and Sorting dynamic lists by page views. Available only if Page Views is set to Brightspot Analytics, Google Analytics 4 or Google Analytics: Universal Analytics.
Amount	Number of intervals. For example, if you set Interval to `Days` and Amount to `2`, then the Page Views field in the search panel and dynamic lists reflects the number of page views over the past two days. Available only if Page Views is set to Brightspot Analytics, Google Analytics 4 or Google Analytics: Universal Analytics.
Disable Analytics HTML Tag Writer	Note Note: Depending on your implementation of Brightspot, this field may be named `Disable Scripts`. If toggled on, disables the JavaScript that triggers the collection of all data by Brightspot Analytics. The data remains uncollected until you turn this toggle off. Also, historical data will continue to be displayed but will not be updated until this toggle is turned off.

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