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Traffic Analytics

Traffic Analytics lets you see which documents your users are reading. This allows you to understand how your documentation is being used, so you can focus on expanding and updating parts people are reading most.

To see a list of the top pages from the last month, go to the :guilabel:`Admin` tab of your project, and then click on :guilabel:`Traffic Analytics`.

Traffic analytics demo

Traffic analytics demo

You can also access to analytics data from :ref:`search results <server-side-search/index:Search Analytics>`.

Note

The amount of analytics data stored for download depends which site you're using:

  • On the Community site, the last 90 days are stored.
  • On the Commercial one, it goes from 30 to infinite storage
    (check out the pricing page).

Enabling Google Analytics on your Project

Read the Docs has native support for Google Analytics. You can enable it by:

Options to manage Google Analytics

Options to manage Google Analytics

Once your documentation rebuilds it will include your Analytics tracking code and start sending data. Google Analytics usually takes 60 minutes, and sometimes can take up to a day before it starts reporting data.

Note

Read the Docs takes some extra precautions with analytics to protect user privacy. As a result, users with Do Not Track enabled will not be counted for the purpose of analytics.

For more details, see the :ref:`Do Not Track section <privacy-policy:Do Not Track>` of our privacy policy.

Disabling Google Analytics on your project

Google Analytics can be completely disabled on your own projects. To disable Google Analytics:

Your documentation will need to be rebuilt for this change to take effect.