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Using search to display usage statistics in SPO
Hi all, I'm looking into using seach api or just search web parts to display usage statistics like most popular/viewed articles in a publishing portal in SPO. When I look at the search schema I fi...
Thanks for your answer!
If you want to view analytics and usage for your SharePoint site, like paulschaeflein says, you can use Azure Application Insights. I used this feature for one of my project and it is really simple. You can either add the generated code into a script editor Web Part or use a https://github.com/OfficeDev/PnP-PowerShell/blob/master/Documentation/AddSPOJavaScriptLink.mdto inject the code for all pages. Just follow this procedure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-insights-sharepoint/.
I think using search may be too complicated for what you looking for.