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Siteimrpove: Visitor analytics on file views

Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Tracking file page views

Using Siteimprove's Marketing Analytics, you can filter page views to see only your site's files such as PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint, etc. 

  • For www.umassmed.edu microsites, files will need to exist in the media tree under "For All Sites" > "your-site."
  • For other tenants, files should be uploaded for "For This Site."

Instructions:


Video tutorial (UMass Chan microsites)  Video tutorial (all tenants/sites)

  • Log into Siteimrpove
  • On the left menu, go to Marketing Analytics 
    • Then click on Content in the left menu
    • Then All Pages in the left menu
    • Siteimprove marketing menu
  • Make sure the Site dropdown filter at the top is set to your tenant site. In this example we have choosen the UMass Chan site.
    • leave the group is un-selected
    • Update date range as desired
  • Set the URL field
    In this step, open the CMS for editing in another browser tab, we will need to copy the proper path to filter our list
    • For UMass Chan microsites:
      • In the URL field, you are going to add a path similar to: "/globalassets/yourmediafoldername/"
        • to get this path, open one of your files (PDF, Word, image, etc) and view it in a browser
          • navigate to "For All Sites" > your sitename
          • find a PDF or other file and choose to edit that file
          • once open in the editor, right click on the "Download file" button and choose "open in another tab"
          • In the browser tab with the file, copy the path starting with "/globalassets/" along with the site name and the "/" after the site name
          • In Siteimprove, paste the link in the URL field
          • click the search icon
          • the report displays all files within that url path
    • For all other tenants/sites:
      • In the URL field, you are going to add a path similar to: "https://yoursite/siteassets/"
        • to get this path, open one of your files (PDF, Word, image, etc) and view it in a browser
          • navigate to "For This Site" 
          • find a PDF or other file and choose to edit that file
          • once open in the editor, right click on the "Download file" button and choose "open in another tab"
          • In the browser tab with the file, copy the path starting with your site URL and ending with "/siteassets/
          • In Siteimprove, paste the link in the URL field
          • click the search icon
          • the report displays all files within that url path