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Hi

I Have a SharePoint communications site. I am normally able to get view stats on all types of documents. I can still get stats on word, PDF, mp4 files, photos etc however, I can no longer see stats on any ASPX files. No unique or over all views and it says there is no recent activity for this item. It also no longer appears in the over all stats in the site usage.

Has there been a change to SharePoint that would cause this? You get very little data as it is so bit annoying that something else has been removed.

Answer 1

Hi @Hayley

Based on your description, you are experiencing an issue where SharePoint Communication Site usage stats are no longer displaying for ASPX files (Site Pages). While you can still view analytics for PDFs, Word documents, MP4s, and photos, ASPX files are showing "no recent activity" for both unique and overall views, and they have completely vanished from the overall Site Usage report.

To help narrow down whether this is a localized glitch or a tenant-wide behavior, could you please provide a bit more context?

1. Apart from this specific Communication Site, are you seeing the same behavior on other sites within your organization? If possible, could you try creating a test page on a different site to see if stats populate?
2. Did the ASPX stats disappear suddenly after a specific date, or has it been phasing out over the last few weeks?
3. On my end, in my test environment, the analytics and views for ASPX pages are still displaying normally. Since everything is still displaying normally in my environment, it is possible that ASPX files have not been added to the “excluded files” list.

Could you please tell me how the Site Pages section is currently displaying in your environment? Below is a screenshot for reference.

Since this is currently working as expected on my end, there hasn't been an official, permanent removal of ASPX stats across SharePoint. Your updates will be incredibly helpful for me to pinpoint what might be causing this on your site. Looking forward to your reply!

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Answer 2

SharePoint usage reporting for ASPX files (pages) depends on two different capabilities:

1. Site usage / page usage analytics
   • Site-level usage (Site usage page) shows visits, unique viewers, and popular content, but some file types are excluded from certain reports.
   • The documentation notes that each report excludes some file extensions (except the “Shared with external users” report). If ASPX has recently been added to the excluded list for specific reports, those pages would no longer appear in:
     • File-level view counts for those reports
     • Overall “most viewed” file lists on the Site usage page
   • Usage data is also aggregated and displayed in UTC and does not include activity from the last 60 minutes, so very recent activity will not appear immediately.
2. Per-file viewer details (SharePoint Viewers feature)
   • To see who views files or pages, the SharePoint Viewers site feature must be activated:
     1. Go to the site.
     2. Settings → Site information → View all site settings.
     3. Under Site Actions, select Manage site features.
     4. Find SharePoint Viewers and select Activate.
   • When this feature is enabled, viewer information for files and pages (including ASPX pages) appears on the file card in the library, not on the Site usage page.
   • If this feature was deactivated (for example, by a change in site configuration or admin policy), viewer details for ASPX pages would stop appearing on the file card, even though other file types might still show basic usage counts via other mechanisms.
3. Admin-level usage reports
   • In the Microsoft 365 admin center, SharePoint activity and site usage reports can show per-user and per-site metrics (files viewed/edited, pages visited, etc.).
   • By default, user-specific details (usernames, sites) are hidden and must be explicitly enabled by an admin via the “Show user, group, or site details in usage reports” setting. If this setting was changed, detailed per-page or per-user visibility could be reduced, even though aggregate counts remain.

Given the behavior described (ASPX pages no longer showing unique/overall views and not appearing in site usage stats, while other file types still do), the most likely causes based on the available documentation are:

• A change in which file extensions are included in specific site usage reports, which would remove ASPX pages from those reports; and/or
• A change in the SharePoint Viewers feature or organization-level sharing/usage privacy settings, which affects visibility of who viewed pages and how page activity is surfaced.

Verification steps:

1. Confirm that SharePoint Viewers is still activated on the site (Site settings → Manage site features → SharePoint Viewers).
2. Check with the SharePoint or Microsoft 365 admin whether:
   • Any changes were made to organization-level sharing or privacy settings for usage reports.
   • User, group, or site details are still allowed to be shown in usage reports.
3. Allow for the 60-minute delay in usage data and re-check site usage after some time.

If ASPX pages remain absent from all usage views after these checks, the behavior is consistent with a backend change to which file types are included in site usage reports, and further confirmation would require tenant-level support.

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References:

• View usage data for your SharePoint site
• View usage data for SharePoint pages and news
• Allow people to see who views their files or pages
• SharePoint activity report
• SharePoint site usage report
• View usage reports in SharePoint Server