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Configure and Access Pressbooks Analytics

Viewing Page Visit and Referrer Statistics in Pressbooks

Pressbooks uses the built-in open source Koko Analytics plugin to provide statistics for individual books and network pages on:

  • Visitors
  • Page views
  • Referrers

You can view this data by going to the Analytics tab on the left dashboard menu, where you’ll see:

  • Total number of visitors and page views over the selected time period
  • Most visited pages and/or chapters in your OER
  • Most frequent referrers to your OER

You can adjust the date range using the date picker tool in the top left.

While page view information is collected at least once a day, the real-time (hourly) page view count may not always be accurate.

Network managers can also send visitor traffic information to a Google Analytics dashboard using Pressbooks’ optional Google Analytics integration.

Configuring Analytics Settings in Pressbooks

You can configure Analytics settings by navigating to 'View Analytics' and then go to the Settings function in the top right.

From here you can:

  • Enable or disable a cookie that determines unique page views
  • Exclude page views from specified user roles
  • Set the default (date) display period
  • Specify when to automatically delete older analytics data (default storage is 60 months).

Attributions

Adapted from ‘View Network Stats’ and ‘Adjust Network Settings’ in The Pressbooks Network Manager’s Guide by Pressbooks, licensed under a CC BY 4.0 licence.