SharePoint 2007 offers several Usage and Audit reports out-of-the box worth considering.
Usage Reports
Out-of-the-box SharePoint usage reports include a variety of metrics: usage summary, requests, users, referrers, home page, destination pages, search queries, and search results. Find out who is using your SharePoint portal, what sites and pages are being used the most, and how users get to a site. Fine tune your search settings by looking at the most common search terms.
| Report | Displays |
| Usage Summary | Average Requests per day, Top Pages, Top Users, Top Referring Hosts, Top Referring Pages, Top Destination Sites, Top Queries, Search Results Top Destination Pages. |
| Requests | Requests per day, Average Requests by month. |
| Users | Unique Users, User Activity (past 30 days) |
| Referrers | Top Referring Hosts, Top Referring Pages |
| Destination | Top Destination Sites |
| Home Page | Home Page Requests per Day, Top Referring Pages, Top Destination Pages |
| Search Queries (Site collection only) | Top Queries (Previous 30 days, Previous 12 Months), Queries per Scope |
| Search Results (Site collection only) | Top Destination Pages, Queries with Low Click Through, Queries with Zero Results, Queries with Zero Best Bets. |
Site usage reports can be found via a hyperlink on the Site Settings page under the Site Administration heading. Users must have Admin rights or at a minimum View Usage Data rights to the site to access the usage reports. To configure usage reporting, a farm administrator must first enable Windows SharePoint Services usage logging, then enable and configure the usage reporting service. Site collection administrators can then activate the reporting feature to enable usage reports.
Audit Reports
Out-of-the-box SharePoint auditing reports include Content Activity reports, Information Management reports, Security and Site Settings reports, and Custom Reports.
Audit log reports are Excel reports. They can be found via a hyperlink on the Site Settings page under the Site Collection Administration heading. Users must have Admin rights to the site to access these reports. In addition, Site Collection Audit settings under the Site Collection Administration heading must be enabled.
3rd Party SharePoint Reporting
If SharePoint out-of-the-box usage and audit reports are not sufficient for your organization, you may want to purchase a 3rd party SharePoint reporting tool.
Quest’s Site Administrator offers over 30 user-friendly usage and auditing SharePoint reports. For a list of reports, go to www.quest.com/site-administrator-for-sharepoint
Nintex Reporting offers everyone from system administrators to business owners access to online reports and key information dashboards. Nintex Reporting surpasses the traditional reporting experience, providing interactive web-based charts. Users can hover over a data point to focus on specific information, drill-down and scroll through pages of data in an instant. Details on Nintex reports can be found at www.Nintex.com/reporting
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