Reports

Reports are valuable tools for content editors, website owners, marketers and merchandisers, to monitor various website activities. Optimizely comes with a set of built-in reports, and you can develop customized reports for your website.

Reports for CMS content

You can use reports for websites to locate broken links and expired pages, or to get an overview of simple addresses used on the website. Obtain reports from the Reports option in the Optimizely CMS global menu.

Image: Link status report

When you generate a report, select the desired report and the starting point in the page tree from where you want the report to include data, then click Show Report. You can filter data by time and language, and pages included in the report results open in edit view when you click a page link.

The following sample reports are available for Optimizely CMS:

Report Description
Not published pages Displays unpublished pages that have a change date within a specified time span.
Published pages Displays pages that have a publish date within a specified time span.
Changed pages Displays pages that have a change date within a specified time span.
Expired pages Displays pages with stop publish date within a specified time span.
Simple addresses Displays pages with a simple address.
Link status Displays links that could not be contacted in the link check scheduled job.

Some reports rely on scheduled jobs running in the background for generating report data; see Scheduled jobs in the CMS Administration section.

 Reports in Commerce

You can use reports in Optimizely Commerce to follow-up on sales performance, or to monitor inventory stock information for products. See Reporting in the Commerce section, if you have a website with Commerce installed.