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Blog Statistics#

Get a Matomo Analytics Login#

  1. Contact Shared Systems and ask to be given "viewer" access to the NPL website analytics in Matomo.

Pull Pageviews for a Blog Post#

Find out how many views your blog post is getting during a given time period.

  1. Log in to Matomo Analytics.

  2. Make sure you're looking at the right source: NPL Website. source

  3. Adjust the time period you want to see. Click the date menu and select the time period you want. source

  4. On the right side of the screen, look for the Pages report and click the square to maximize the report.
    pages report

  5. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the Pages report and find the search box. time period

  6. 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. time period

  7. Repeat for each blog post.

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.

  1. Log in to Matomo Analytics.

  2. Make sure you're looking at the right source: NPL Website.
    source

  3. Adjust the time period you want to see. Click the date menu and select the time period you want.
    source

  4. On the left side of the screen, click Behaviour > Pages.
    pages report

  5. Click the cog icon...
    cog icon

  6. ...then choose "make it flat."
    cog icon

  7. In the search box, type /blog to filter the list.
    cog icon

  8. Look at the list to find the top posts for your time period.