A dynamic site landing page?

Question

I'm brand new to Sharepoint, so I hope this question isn't too basic for this community.

I've created a team wiki site under my profile (I'm just a user, no admin privs) and have started building a knowledge base with content copied from an older non-SP site. What options are there for changing the landing page (.../SitePages/Home.aspx) to something live, that reflects the changing content of the site? Meaning I don't want to be editing the home page all the time to change the links.

Examples of what I'm thinking of for home page content:

• a sitemap (hierarchical?)
• a tag cloud
• list of 5 most recent additions or edits
• 5 most viewed pages
• 5 most edited pages
• This week's featured page, with intro blurb and jump link
• etc.

It seems like Web Parts are for this kind of thing, but I don't see anything in there that I recognize as providing these kinds of services.

Answer 1

Things like Most Viewed Pages and Top Search Queries are available through the Web Analytics Web Part, which is available via Edit page > Editing Tools > Insert > Content Rollup. (You may need to widen browser window to see it. It comes after "Site Aggregator" on my system.). The analytics web part also provides:

Traffic reports: These reports provide metrics such as:

How much traffic your site gets (Number of Page Views);
Who visits your sites (Top Visitors);
How visitors arrive at your site (Top Referrers);
Daily Unique Visitors, Top Destinations, Top Browsers, etc;

Search reports: These reports give you insight into what users are searching for, for example:

How many times users searched (Number of Queries);
What were the most used search terms (Top Queries);
What queries have high failure rates (Failed Queries);
Best Bet Usage, Search keywords, etc;

Inventory reports: These reports display key metrics regarding the inventory of your sites:

What is the total disk drive space user (Storage Usage);
How many sites exist (Number of Sites);
Top Site Product Versions, Top Site Languages, etc;

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The Tag cloud web part can be found under Editing Tools > Insert > Web Part > Social Collaboration.

I haven't found the other items yet.