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Iron Contributor

Feb 02, 2021

Basic Analytics Question

Firstly, we'd like to avoid having to pay thousands of dollars per month to get everyone a Power BI licenses as everyone is already licensed with Business Standard, which includes SharePoint, Teams, ...

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SteveKnutson

MVP

Feb 02, 2021

luvsql you can use Google Analytics. This blog has details and includes a link to SharePoint App package that you can use in your tenant (at the bottom of the page)

How to add Google Analytics to the Modern SharePoint - HANDS ON SharePoint (handsontek.net)

luvsql
Iron Contributor
Feb 02, 2021
SteveKnutson Please excuse my ignorance of GA but will that then keep a tally on an actual attachment that's in a SharePoint List/Library ie how many times that file was accessed?
- SteveKnutson
  MVP
  Feb 03, 2021
  luvsql I haven't tested with documents specifically but you do get page counts and paths e.g. person clicks link on page, goes to another page then clicks a link etc
  
  SharePoint has built in analytics also but it provides less detail. This is a good summary.
  
  View usage data for your SharePoint site - SharePoint (microsoft.com)
  - luvsql
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 03, 2021
    SteveKnutson I assume this is the entire site collection usage (ie the top level site)? We use modern pages to split up most our content that we need analyzed but can't find analytics by page.