Site insights
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This feature is available as part of the Premium and Ultimate sites plan. To find out more, visit our pricing page.
Insights give you information on the content you've published and how it performs. It's split up between three sections — traffic, search and feedback.
You can find insights for individual docs sites in the docs site dashboard, and can sort it by the last week, month and year.
GitBook tracks page views to help you understand the popularity and reach of your content. Each time a user visits a page on your docs site, it is counted as a page view.
This information is compiled and displayed in the Traffic section of the Insights tab, allowing you to identify which pages are most visited and engage the most readers. Page views are critical for assessing the effectiveness of your content strategy and optimizing your documentation based on user interest.
You can measure and improve your documentation by checking which keywords are used the most by users searching your documentation.
Switch to the Search analytics tab to see what keywords are performing the best, and which ones you could improve on. You can view these search terms for the past week, month, or year.
The information here can be helpful for informing your content architecture, making certain parts of your documentation easier to find without search, or adding additional content to existing pages based on what your visitors are searching for.
If you want to use or analyze this data further outside of GitBook, click Download CSV to download a .csv file to your device.
You’ll get information on:
pageHits: Total number of pages (title and description) matching the search term/query .
sectionHits: Total number of sections (contents of the pages) matching the search term/query.
Content scores give you a high-level representation of how your users rate your content. After enabling page rating in the Customize menu for a site, you can see each page’s average feedback rating here.
You’ll initially see the ratings for your site’s default content, and you can use the dropdown menu on the right to select any other linked spaces in that site. You can then hover over the average rating to see how many positive, neutral and negative ratings a specific page has.
If you want to use or analyze this data further outside of GitBook, click Download CSV to download a .csv file to your device.
GitBook uses a simple formula to calculate the page’s overall score:
no. of ratings * (no. of positives - [0.5 * no. of neutrals] - [2 * no. of negatives])
The goal of the content score is to surface the pages with the most feedback, with a bias towards negative ratings so you can see pages that need improvements. The more ratings a page has, the more the formula amplifies the sentiments of those ratings. This helps you spot pages that need attention, as well as pages that are highly-rated — to help you identify, iterate on and replicate your best content.
We cap the score at 500 (and -500) to avoid scores for commonly-rated pages reaching 10,000+.
Why can’t I see any data for my site? We only display data for published sites with page ratings enabled. If your site is not published or does not have page ratings enabled, you won’t see any insights.
