SharePoint: Enable Site Viewers

SharePoint Viewers Setting

The SharePoint Viewers setting allows you to see the names of people who have viewed your files or pages and the last date that they viewed on. This is a good way to see if your content is reaching your target audience. Viewer data is only available through individual page details and not in a reporting format.

 

How to Enable the SharePoint Viewers Setting

(You need to be a Site Owner or ask your IT Administrator to turn on this feature.)
  1. Go to Site Settings > Site Information
  2. Click View all site settings
    SharePoint settings panel highlighting the Site information option in the navigation list.         SharePoint Site Information panel showing site name, description, hub association, and settings link.
  3. Under Site Actions click Manage Site Features
    Site Actions menu highlighting the Manage site features option in SharePoint settings.
  4. Scroll down to and activate SharePoint Viewer
    SharePoint Viewers feature set to Active, showing option to display viewer names.

 

How to See Viewer Data

  1. Go to Site Settings > Site Content > Site Pages
  2. View the Page Details by selecting the 3 dots for the page or hovering over the page name until the page details quick access box appears. Screen Capture, not Site Pages label on the top left. In the right column not the page name and a link to the number of page views.
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