View your users' community activity
As an administrator, you can view Currents community activity.
Step 1: Open your community metrics report
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Sign in to your Google Admin console.
Sign in using your administrator account (does not end in @gmail.com).
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In the Admin console, go to Menu
Reporting
Reports
The report shows a table of data you can export. - See below for how to interpret and customize report data.
Step 2: Understand community metrics
The following community data is included in the report.
| Report column | Description |
|---|---|
| Community |
The community name. Click the link to go to the community. Note: If the community is private and not restricted to your organization, but is owned by a member of your organization, it shows as External private community in the table. This means the community is private and outside your organization. |
| Date created | Date the community was created. |
| Visibility | Audience that can join and view the community content. Can take one of four values:
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| Total members | Total number of members in the community. This includes members added from Google Groups. |
| Internal members | Number of members from your organization in the community. |
| External members | Number of members from outside your organization in the community |
| Active members | Number of members who performed any action (post, comment, or thumbs up) in the reporting period. |
| Active internal members | Number of active members of the community from your organization in the reporting period. |
| Active external members | Number of active members of the community from outside your organization in the reporting period. |
| New members | Number of members who joined during the reporting period. |
| Posts | Number of posts made during the reporting period. Deleted posts do not subtract from this count. |
| Comments | Number of comments made during the reporting period. Deleted comments do not subtract from this count. |
| Thumbs up | Number of thumbs up made during the reporting period. Deleted Thumbs up do not subtract from this count. |
Step 3: Change the data you see in the table
- Open your report as shown above.
- Click the Down arrow
and choose between 7 or 30 days of data. This will be reflected in the values in the Active members, Active internal members, Active external members, New members, Posts, Comments, and thumbs up columns.
- Click a column in the table to sort by that column.
Step 4: Download the table data
You can download your community metrics report data as a CSV file.
- Open your report as shown above.
- Click Download
. The Tasks pane will open and show the progress of the download preparation.
- Click Download CSV to download the report.
How old is the data I'm seeing?
The data in the table may be up to 48 hours old.
