Expose SharePoint page view count in Microsoft Graph page/list item responses

[glyn-clough-accelerator-365]

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Question

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💥 SharePoint Framework

Target SharePoint environment

SharePoint Online

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Issue description

We are using Microsoft Graph to retrieve SharePoint page information, for example:

GET /sites/<site-id>/lists/<list-id>/items?$select=fields&$expand=fields

The response includes useful page-related fields, including values that allow us to work with likes and comments. However, page view count is not returned as part of the same response.

We understand that page view information can be retrieved through additional requests, but this creates a scalability and performance issue when building page listings, content dashboards, or intranet experiences that need to show engagement data for multiple pages.

When requesting a list of pages, we would like the total page view count to be available in the same response, alongside the other page/list item fields.

There was a previous related issue, #8947, but that issue is now closed.

Expected behavior

Microsoft Graph should provide a supported way to retrieve the total view count for a SharePoint page or news post as part of the same request used to retrieve the page/list item data.

Ideally this would be returned alongside the other page fields when querying list items/pages, or exposed through a documented Graph property that can be selected or expanded.

For example:

{
  "viewCount": 1234
}

Actual behavior

The Graph response includes page/list item fields and engagement-related values such as likes/comments, but does not include page views.

Page views can be retrieved separately, but this requires additional requests and is not practical when retrieving and displaying engagement data for multiple pages.

Request

Can Microsoft confirm whether page view count can be added to the Microsoft Graph response when retrieving SharePoint pages/list items, so that it can be returned in the same request as the rest of the page metadata?

We are specifically looking to avoid making additional per-page requests just to retrieve view counts.

[bcameron1231]

While I can't speak for Microsoft, any chance you've tried to implement Graph Batching to speed up your calls?

[glyn-clough-accelerator-365]

While I can't speak for Microsoft, any chance you've tried to implement Graph Batching to speed up your calls?

Thanks for the response @bcameron1231. We are already using Batching to help. However, when we're scaling this up to hundreds, if not thousands, of pages, even with batching it's still very inefficient to get the data we're looking for.

[bcameron1231]

Makes sense. If you're planning upwards of hundreds or thousands of pages, I would personally say you might want to look into a shift in architecture. I think you'd still hit some scaling issues even with a viewCount available. I might suggest thinking about a background service that crawls your sites and retrieves the view counts accordingly and stores them for retrieval later... then you work against the crawled content. It'd be much easier scale in this way.

[glyn-clough-accelerator-365]

Agreed @bcameron1231 - for a one-off project we'd definitely be looking at it that way! For a product (that's deployed from the SharePoint Store) it's a much harder ask for clients to setup a 'back-end' e.g. an Azure service. Hence we're seeing how far we can get with client-side. The Graph requests are incredibly powerful and allow us to get most of the way there - just a few gaps like this can have a knock-on effect on efficiency. It would be great to know from MS if this is because of an architectural limit, an oversight, or simply because nobody has asked before!

[Ashlesha-MSFT]

@glyn-clough-accelerator-365

Thanks for the detailed write-up. To confirm — this is a known API gap rather than a bug. Page view counts are sourced from SharePoint's analytics pipeline, which is architecturally separate from the list item fields returned by Graph. That's why they can't currently be included inline in the same response.

For now, the most practical client-side approach remains Graph batching against the analytics endpoint per page.

For the longer-term ask — exposing viewCount as a selectable/expandable field on Graph page/list item responses — we'd encourage you to raise this as a feature request on the Microsoft Graph feedback portal:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/forum/06735c62-321c-ec11-b6e7-0022481f8472?ct=1780074599941

[glyn-clough-accelerator-365]

Thanks for the response @Ashlesha-MSFT. Completely understand that this is a gap rather than a bug. I'll raise a feature request on the feedback portal.

If anyone would like to know more about the usage scenarios we're thinking of, we'd be happy to share.