See Who Viewed a Google Doc

To see who has viewed a document, visit Google Docs and sign in with your Google account. Then, open the document.

Additional Dashboard Viewing Features

Select Viewers and use the Shared With tab to see everyone you have shared the document with to find out who else needs to review it. You can also use the Email column to send a message to those you’ve shared the document with as a reminder. Select Viewer Trend to see the unique daily viewers. Choose a particular day on the column chart to see how many viewers were captured that day.

Don’t See Any Viewing Activity?

If you do not see any Viewers and believe you should, consider these reasons.

You can only see activity for files owned by a Google account with the Activity Dashboard feature.You can only see activity for after you had access to the Activity Dashboard.The document may have too many views or viewers to display the Activity Dashboard details.The people you expect to view the document make have opted out of displaying their View History (see below).You or the Admin may have View History turned off (see below).

Turn on Activity Dashboard View History

If you are the Admin for the Google account and want to be sure that you have View History turned on for Google Docs, visit your Google Admin Console and log in.

Turn on Individual View History

To help someone you expect to review the document display their View History or to display yours, open the document in Google Docs and follow steps. Optionally, you can turn on Access to View History for other users to see Viewers and Viewer Trends in the Activity Dashboard. Seeing who viewed a Google Doc is a convenient way to make sure everyone reviews the document. To see who edited a document you’ve shared, you can also look at the revision history.