Never ask “what’s missing?” again.

See what customers search, which docs help, where AI gets used, and what your team should improve next.

01 Discover

What are customers trying to find?

Search is the clearest signal you have. See what people look for, what they can't find, and what's picking up steam.

Top searches

The terms customers use most, ranked by volume.

Searches with no results

Spot the gaps where people search and come up empty.

Searches over time

Watch demand rise and fall so you can get ahead of it.

Search click-throughs

See which results people actually open after searching.

Popular search terms

The evergreen questions asked again and again.

Intelligent grouping

Similar phrases grouped together, so you're not digging through duplicate queries.

02 Understand

Which docs are actually helping?

See which articles people read, return to, and rely on, so your team can understand what's carrying the support load.

Article views

How many times each article is opened.

Unique visitors

How many people read, not just raw page loads.

Popular articles

Your workhorses, the docs carrying the support load.

Views over time

Spot spikes and slumps as they happen.

Flamegraphs

A visual map of where attention flows across your docs.

Happiness

Readers rate articles 😍 😐 😓, so you know what lands.

Top categories

See which sections pull the most weight.

03 Health

Is our content aging well?

See how fresh your library is and how traffic spreads across it, so you know whether your content is in good shape.

Article age distribution

How much of your library is fresh versus aging.

Aging content alerts

A heads-up when too much hasn't been updated in a year.

Traffic distribution

Whether attention is spread out or piled on a few pages.

Concentration by top-N

The share your top article, top 3, 5, and 10 hold.

Healthy library check

See at a glance whether your content is in good shape.

04 Maintain

Which docs need maintenance?

Content maintenance reports surface stale articles, old content, abandoned drafts, and working copies, then tell your team exactly where to focus.

Stale articles

Articles your team flagged as needing an update.

Old content

Docs left untouched for over a year.

Working copies

Unpublished edits still waiting to go live.

Abandoned drafts

Drafts left unfinished for months.

Recommended actions

A prioritized to-do list of what to fix first.

AI content generation

Drafts, rewrites, and metadata written with AI.

Author leaderboard

Who's creating and maintaining the most content.

Export anything

Take any report with you as a CSV.

05 Protect

Keep bots out of your numbers.

Your spam filter automatically screens suspicious traffic out of your analytics, at a level you set. Real readers still see your docs, they just don't skew your stats.

Automatic spam filtering

We screen out suspicious traffic for you, nothing to configure.

Filter levels

Dial it Off, Permissive, Balanced, or Strict to match your risk.

Suspicious activity

Bot-like and abusive patterns get caught before they skew your numbers.

Traffic pattern analysis

We study how each visitor behaves, not just where they're from.

Cloud provider allowlist

Only count traffic from the cloud providers you trust.

Cleaner analytics

Filtered visitors drop out of your stats, they can still read your docs.

06 Reach

How is AI using our documentation?

See which AIs are visiting, which articles support them, and how many of those visits were for real customer queries.

Total AI references

Every time an AI assistant pulled from your docs.

Customer queries

The references that were real customer questions.

AI search indexing

When AI search engines index your content.

Training crawls

Bulk crawls that train the models.

By AI assistant

See ChatGPT, Claude, Amazon, and more, ranked.

References over time

Watch AI traffic grow quarter over quarter.

Most-cited articles

The docs assistants reach for again and again.

07 Focus

Can we focus on specific data?

Filter every report by period, category, article, audience, and more, so the numbers you're looking at are the ones that matter.

By date range

Zoom into a date window, limit based on plan.

By category

Narrow to one section, or drill into a single category tree.

By article

Search and pin the exact articles you want to measure.

By users & groups

Slice by who's reading, or by the team they belong to.

Anonymous only

Exclude logged-in users to isolate public traffic.

Bot traffic toggle

Fold AI assistants into the totals, or leave them out.

Spam level

Apply Off, Permissive, Balanced, or Strict right in the report.

Source & IP filters

Pick a data source and exclude noisy IP addresses.

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From your first article to a knowledge base that gives you detailed reports, HelpDocs supports every stage of your documentation journey.

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