Reports inside Confluence

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Once Google is connected and a GA4 property is chosen, the app reads your Google Analytics data back into Confluence. The app asks Google for the data with the site's connection and shows it in Confluence; readers' browsers never talk to Google for reports.

#Where to find the reports

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What it shows

Apps menu > Google Analytics

The full site-wide reports, with every tab below.

Space sidebar > Google Analytics

The same reports, fixed to that space. There is no Spaces or Searches tab here.

Page ••• menu > Page analytics

Views, people, sessions and engaged sessions for that page over the last 30 days, plus live events from the last 30 minutes.

Confluence home page card

Views, users, sessions and engagement for the site over the last 30 days, with Open Google Analytics.

Google Analytics macro

One view on any page. See Google Analytics (macro).

#On the reports page

  • Date range: 7d, 30d or 90d, or a start and end date of your own.

  • Overview: a chart of views, sessions and users (choose the series and Day, Week or Month), plus an Insights panel and a summary of each tab.

  • Spaces, Content, Attachments and People: one table each. Attachments appears once its custom dimension is synced.

  • Searches and Raw: only when an admin turns on Show sensitive data panels.

  • Filters next to the tabs: spaces, sources (Confluence, Capable Sites, Scroll Viewport, Refined, other sites), audience (Everyone, Guests only, Internal only) and account types. Each filter appears only when the dimension behind it is synced.

  • Selecting a row or a chart entry opens a detail view, with Open in Confluence for pages.

  • A live count of people active in the last 30 minutes sits by the title, with a button to open the property in Google Analytics. Admins also get a settings button.

#Who can see them

Set by Who can view reports in the settings: Confluence admins only (the default), specific groups, or all logged-in users. Everyone else who opens a report sees You do not have access to analytics for this site. If an admin turns reports off, every report surface says so instead. See Choose who can view Google Analytics reports in Confluence.

#Worth knowing

  • The app does not show a consent banner inside Confluence. Setting a measurement ID starts collecting from every reader on the next page load. The only consent popup in the product is on published Capable Sites.

  • Who can view reports controls who can read them. It never changes who is tracked: excluded users and anonymous readers are still recorded.

  • Report rows are not filtered by the viewer's page permissions. Figures come from Google keyed on page ID; only the titles are looked up with the viewer's own access. Keep the audience tight if this matters, and leave the Raw panel off.

  • Reports are kept for up to an hour after they are fetched from Google, so the newest views can take a while to show.

  • Google takes up to 48 hours to surface new events and newly synced dimensions. Empty reports right after setup are expected. A banner at the top says when the app is still waiting for first data.

How it actually behaves.