Share Analytics in Quixli
Creating great content is only half the story — understanding how people interact with that content is equally important. Quixli's share analytics give you visibility into who views your shared pages and collections, how long they engage, where they come from, and which content resonates most. This data helps you optimize your documentation, track whether important documents have been read, and measure the effectiveness of your content strategy.
Accessing Analytics
Analytics are available for any page or collection that has been shared (public link, email share, or team share):
- Open the page or collection you want to analyze
- Click the "Share" button in the top-right corner
- Click "View Analytics" at the bottom of the share panel
The analytics dashboard opens in a panel showing all available metrics for the selected time period.
Available Metrics
Quixli tracks several categories of engagement data:
View Metrics
- Total Views: The total number of times the page has been accessed, including repeat visits from the same person
- Unique Visitors: The number of distinct people who viewed the page. For email shares, this is tied to the recipient's email; for public links, it's based on browser fingerprinting
- Views Over Time: A line chart showing daily view counts, helping you identify trends and spikes in readership
Engagement Metrics
- Average Time on Page: How long visitors spend reading the page. This helps you gauge whether people are actually reading the content or just glancing at it
- Repeat Visits: How many times each reader has come back to the page. A document someone returns to three times is being used, not just opened
- Reading Now: A live list of the sessions currently open on your documents, so you can see a reader arrive while they are still on the page
Audience Metrics
- Geographic Distribution: A map showing where your viewers are located, based on IP geolocation. Useful for understanding your audience's geographic spread
- Device Breakdown: The split between desktop, tablet, and mobile viewers. This informs whether you need to optimize for mobile reading experiences
- Referral Sources: How people found your page — direct link, search engine, social media, or embedded link on another website
Using Analytics Effectively
Raw numbers are useful, but the real value comes from acting on insights. Here are practical ways to use your analytics data:
Identify Popular Content
Pages with high view counts and long reading times are your best content. Consider expanding these pages, creating related content, or featuring them prominently in your navigation. Conversely, pages with low views might need better discoverability — update their titles, add them to relevant collections, or link to them from popular pages.
Check Whether a Document Was Really Read
For critical documents like onboarding guides or compliance training, reading time and repeat visits are the signals to watch. A reader who spent twelve seconds on a fifteen-minute document opened it rather than read it, and one who has come back three times is working from it. The dashboard also shows which sections of the document were on their screen and for how long, which they passed over, and which they came back to. That measures presence on screen rather than comprehension — a section can be in front of somebody and unread — so treat it as where their attention went, not as proof that they took it in.
Track Review Status
When you share a proposal or report via email, view tracking tells you exactly when (and whether) the recipient opened it. This is invaluable for follow-up timing — you can reach out after they've had time to read, rather than guessing.
Optimize Publishing Schedule
The "Views Over Time" chart reveals when your audience is most active. If your documentation gets the most traffic on Tuesday mornings, schedule content updates and announcements accordingly.
Analytics for Collections
Collection analytics aggregate data across all pages in the collection, giving you a bird's-eye view:
- Most viewed pages: A ranked list of pages by view count, showing which pages readers open most
- Pages nobody opened: A count of the documents in your workspace that have never been viewed, so unread material does not go unnoticed
- Collection-wide metrics: Total views, unique readers, and average reading time across the entire collection
Best Practices
- Review analytics weekly: Set a recurring reminder to check your content analytics. Weekly reviews help you catch trends early and respond to changes in readership
- Compare before and after: When you update content, compare the analytics from before and after the update to measure the impact of your changes
- Use analytics to prioritize updates: Focus your content improvement efforts on pages with high traffic but low engagement (short reading time, few repeat visits)
- Share insights with your team: If you're managing a team knowledge base, share analytics summaries with content contributors to motivate and guide their writing
Frequently Asked Questions
Are analytics available on the free plan?
Yes — the dashboard itself is on every plan: total views, unique readers, average reading time, daily view counts, device and country. What Pro adds is identity. On the free plan reader names and addresses are hidden after a short preview of the first few readers, with a lifetime cap of 20 identity reveals for the workspace, and one reader's history across all of your documents is Pro-only.
Can I export analytics data?
Yes. Click "Export" in the analytics panel to download a CSV file with all metrics for the selected time period. This is useful for creating custom reports or importing data into other analytics tools.
How far back does analytics data go?
Retention is the same on every plan. The visit records your dashboard is built from are kept for as long as the share exists, and the raw event journal behind them — the individual view, download and gate entries — is trimmed after 12 months.