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title: Analytics
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  Use Clear Ideas analytics to understand page-level attention, search behavior,
  user journeys, and governed engagement inside a Site.
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ogDescription: >-
  Understand stakeholder attention, search behavior, content engagement, and
  audit visibility in Clear Ideas.
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# Analytics

Analytics helps Site operators understand how people actually use a governed workspace: what they open, what they search for, where attention concentrates, and what deserves follow-up.

This is one of the clearest ways Clear Ideas connects sharing, intelligence work, and measurable engagement in the same system of record.

## Main Analytics Views

### Dashboard

Use the dashboard for an operating overview of:

- most active content
- active users and user groups
- storage and file counts
- indexing coverage
- Site-level activity signals

### Content Analytics

Content analytics help you understand which documents are getting real attention, including:

- most accessed content
- views, downloads, and uploads over time
- content lifecycle patterns
- topic or category distribution

### User Analytics

User analytics help you compare behavior across people and groups, including:

- most active users
- activity share
- collaboration patterns
- journey views across a Site

### Engagement Analytics

Engagement analytics focus on how people discover and interact with content, including:

- usage-time heatmaps
- most searched terms
- reading-depth signals

### Audit

Audit views provide detailed event history and exportable activity records.

## Why Analytics Matters

Analytics is especially valuable when you need to know:

- whether stakeholders reached the material that mattered
- which pages or sections got real attention
- where search demand is increasing
- where users drop off in a review path
- which accounts or groups need follow-up before a meeting or deadline

## Search Intelligence

Search analytics help Site operators understand:

- what users are trying to find
- which topics create repeated search demand
- where search appears to succeed quickly
- where repeated searching suggests a content gap

Search behavior is often one of the fastest ways to spot missing documents, weak naming, or unclear information architecture.

## Page-Level Attention and User Journeys

For deeper analysis of page-level review behavior and stakeholder movement through a Site, see [Page-Level Analytics and User Journeys](/site-administrator-guide/page-level-analytics-and-user-journeys).

## Related Documentation

- [Page-Level Analytics and User Journeys](/site-administrator-guide/page-level-analytics-and-user-journeys)
- [Site Statistics](/site-administrator-guide/site-statistics)