Content referral sources (UTM parameters) help you understand which features and promotion methods are most effective at driving employees to content in your organization.
The Content referral source tile in Global (under the Content tab), Site, and Page analytics will allow you to see how effective different sources are for driving users to content. This allows managers to best optimize how to promote their content.
Referral source
The item or feature responsible for referring a user to a content item. For example, the carousel on the site dashboard.
Content items
The total number of unique content items (page/album/event) referred by each source.
Referrals
The total number of content referrals generated by each referral source. A high count/percentage is an indication that the referral source is effective at referring users to content however this calculation does not account for the total number of content items.
Avg referrals per item
The total number of content referrals generated by each referral source in relation to the number of content items. A high count/percentage is an indication that the referral source is effective at referring users to content items.
Title definitions when viewing Content referral analytics
Display Name | Definition |
N/A (Direct/Undefined) |
"Direct / Undefined" is traffic for which the referrer is unknown. The different types of Direct / Undefined traffic
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Activity notifications email | Linked from activity notification emails. These emails relate to how one's profile email notifications are set up, e.g., your content is liked or commented or shared, content is marked as Must read, content notification from sites I follow, invites to events, etc. |
Analytics monthly report | Linked from Simpplr's automated monthly analytics report emails. These emails are sent to App and Site managers on a monthly basis with high-level analytics and referrer the user back to the app for more information |
App analytics | Linked from global analytics |
Combined timeline content | Linked from a feed post |
Content analytics | Linked from content analytics dashboard |
Content detail page - Related content | Linked from related content that displays at the bottom of content (displays in groups of 3 when present) |
Content onboarding listing | Linked from the content onboarding listing feature |
Deep link | Linked from mobile push notifications |
Email summaries - Personalized content | Linked from Personalized content email notification |
Email summaries - Top stories | Linked from Personalized content email notification |
Embedded link | Embedded link |
Events listing | Linked from the events page (accessed from the user menu drop-down) |
External auto complete | External auto complete |
External search | External search |
Favorites | Linked from Favorites page (accessed from the user menu drop-down) |
Favorite feed | Linked from the favorite feed |
Feed popular content | Popular content from the home feed |
Feed popular content in site | Feed popular content in site |
Feed post grouped | Feed post grouped |
Feed post shared | Linked from feed post on the timeline |
Feed post timeline | Linked from feed post on the timeline |
Global auto-complete | Global auto-complete |
Global search | Global search |
Home carousel | Linked from the home carousel |
Home dashboard | Linked form the home dashboard |
Home dashboard tile | Linked from tiles on the home dashboard (relates to tiles that innately display content; manually copied Simpplr URLs pasted into a feed post are not tracked) |
Home feed | Linked from home page feed (includes links from popular content & recently published feed blocks added in blank release; manually copied Simpplr URLs pasted into a feed post will not be tracked) |
Home feed smart post | Linked from a home feed smart post |
Home onboarding smart post | Linked from home onboarding smart post |
In-app notifications | Linked from any in-app notification link |
Manage site analytics tab | Linked from site analytics dashboard |
Microsoft Teams | Linked from content dynamically posted via Simpplr's MS Teams integration (manually copied Simpplr URLs pasted into a Teams channel are not tracked) |
Monthly report | Linked from app analytics monthly report dashboard (not the same as analytics monthly report emails) |
Must read listing | Linked from Must reads page (accessed from the user menu drop-down) |
My content | Linked from the My content page (accessed from the user menu drop-down) |
Newsletter | Linked from Newsletter |
Onboarding | Onboarding |
Profile menu | Linked from the user profile menu |
Recent searches | Linked the recent searches list that displays when initially clicking on the global search box |
Related content | Linked from the related content section at the end of content pages |
Search auto-completion | Linked from clicking on the auto-completion list that displays while entering text in the global search box |
Search results | Linked from the top or content search results tabs for global search |
Site analytics | Linked from any site analytics page |
Site content onboarding section | Linked from site onboarding content section |
Site content tabs | Linked from any of the content listed on any of the following site tabs: pages, events, albums |
Site carousel | Linked from any site carousel |
Site dashboard | Linked from the site dashboard |
Site dashboard tile | Linked from any site dashboard tile |
Site feed | Linked from any site feed (manually copied Simpplr URLs pasted into a site feed post or content comment will not be tracked) |
Site smart feed onboarding section | Linked from the site smart feed onboarding section |
Slack | Will track content dynamically posted via Simpplr's Slack integration (manually copied Simpplr URLs pasted into a channel will not be tracked) |
SMS for content notifications | Linked from SMS notifications |
SMS must read | Linked from must read SMS notification |
Source | Source |
Topic detail page | Linked from Topic detail page (accessed when clicking on a topic at the bottom of content or clicking on a hashtag link). |
User profile - Published content | Linked from Published content page (accessed when clicking on Show all in the Published content section of a user's profile page). |
Content Items Column | Referrals Column |
Total number of unique pieces of content referred to from this source. | NUMBER: Total number of referrals from this source. |
PERCENTAGE: Total number of referrals from this source / Total number of referrals from all tracked sources displayed |
Note:
A referral is another name for a content view. However, the total "referral" count does not equal to the total "Content views" in the View graph because some referral sources are not tracked yet in this data. For example, referrals from links in our mobile application are not yet tracked. Additionally, manually copied Simpplr URLs, used within Simpplr (e.g., in posts, pages, tiles, etc.) or externally (e.g., sent in an email), are not tracked either.
The Referrals per item column tells you how effective the source is at driving traffic volume.
Number: Total number of referrals from this source / total number of unique pieces of content referred from this source | Average number of referrals per item. Tells you how effective the source is for driving traffic to unique pieces of content. |
Percentage: Referral per item number / total number of referrals per item for all counts displayed | Helpful for showing referral-per-item effectiveness in the display bar to compare with all the other referral averages displayed. |
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