Blog Statistics#
Get a Google Analytics Login#
- If you don't already have one, create a Gmail account.
- Email your Gmail address to someone in Shared Systems and ask to be given "viewer" access to the NPL website's analytics.
Pull Pageviews for a Blog Post#
Find out how many views your blog post is getting during a given time period.
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Log in to Google Analytics.
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Make sure you're looking at the right source:
Waldo > library.nashville.org - NPL Website Production > GA4. -
On the left side of the screen, choose Reports.
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On the upper right side of the screen, set your desired time period.
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In the left menu, select Engagement > Pages and Screens.
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Under the graph, find the search box. Type a few words from the URL of your blog post (you must include hyphens). In the example below, we're looking at stats for a post called "February in the Garden" with the URL https://library.nashville.org/blog/2023/02/february-garden. We put "february-garden" (from the URL) in the search box to find stats.
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Repeat for each blog post.
Find the Most Popular Posts for a Time Period#
Find the most popular posts for the last month, last three months, February 2020, etc. Set your time period and find out which blog posts were most popular.
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Log in to Google Analytics.
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Make sure you're looking at the right source:
Waldo > library.nashville.org - NPL Website Production > GA4. -
On the left side of the screen, choose Reports.
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On the upper right side of the screen, set your desired time period.
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In the left menu, select Engagement > Pages and Screens.
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Under the graph, find the search box. Type /blog/ in the search box.
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Look at the pageviews list, which is sorted from highest to lowest for the time period you set initially.