8.1 Overview

The Dashboard is the primary reporting center of AIUNIFY Analytics.

After your Website has been created, connected, and successfully collecting data, the Dashboard gives you a consolidated view of Website activity.

From the Dashboard, you can review:

  1. Pageviews
  2. Sessions, when applicable
  3. Visitors
  4. Traffic trends
  5. Pages
  6. Landing Pages
  7. Exit Pages for Advanced Tracking
  8. Referrers
  9. UTMs
  10. Locations
  11. Devices
  12. Screen Resolutions
  13. Website Themes
  14. Browsers
  15. Browser Languages
  16. Browser Timezones
  17. Operating Systems
  18. Visiting Hours
  19. Weekdays
  20. Realtime activity
  21. Goals
  22. Outbound Clicks

The actual Dashboard groups these statistics into interactive reporting cards beneath the main traffic chart.

The basic operating flow is:

Select Website → Open Dashboard → Choose Date Range → Review Core Metrics → Examine Traffic Chart → Explore Reporting Categories → Apply Filters → Investigate Detailed Reports

8.2 Opening the Dashboard

To open the Dashboard:

  1. Sign in to AIUNIFY Analytics.
  2. Verify the correct Website is selected.
  3. Select Dashboard from the main navigation.
  4. Review the Website name displayed at the top of the page.
  5. Confirm the desired reporting date range.

The Dashboard prominently displays the currently selected Website's domain or Website path.

This is important because all Dashboard data relates to the Website currently selected.

8.3 Always Verify the Selected Website

If your account contains multiple Websites, check the Website Selector before interpreting any report.

For example:

Website A

may be:

company.com

while:

Website B

may be:

store.company.com

The Dashboard statistics will change according to which Website is currently active.

A common Analytics mistake is reviewing accurate data for the wrong Website.

Before performing analysis, verify:

Selected Website → Date Range → Filters

8.4 Core Dashboard Metrics

At the top of the Dashboard, AIUNIFY Analytics displays the primary Website metrics.

The exact set depends on the Website's Tracking Type.

Advanced Tracking Dashboard

For an Advanced Tracking Website, the Dashboard displays:

  1. Pageviews
  2. Sessions
  3. Visitors


Lightweight Tracking Dashboard

For a Lightweight Tracking Website, the Dashboard displays:

  1. Pageviews
  2. Visitors


The way visitor information is collected under Lightweight Tracking remains different from Advanced Tracking, as explained in Chapter 3. Lightweight mode does not provide persistent Visitor histories in the same way as Advanced Tracking.

8.5 Pageviews

Pageviews represents tracked Website page-view activity for the selected reporting period.

Use Pageviews to understand overall Website consumption.

For example, a Website might have:

Visitors: 500

Pageviews: 1,800

This tells you that Website activity involved substantially more page views than the total visitor count.

Pageviews can help answer questions such as:

  1. How much Website activity occurred?
  2. Is traffic increasing?
  3. Which reporting periods generated the most page activity?
  4. Which pages are receiving the most views?

Pageviews is one of the primary Dashboard metrics under both Tracking Types.

8.6 Sessions

For Advanced Tracking, the Dashboard also displays:

Sessions

A Session represents a period of Website activity associated with a visitor's visit.

Sessions allow you to distinguish between:

Visitors

and

Visits

because the same returning visitor can generate more than one Session.

The Dashboard explicitly displays Sessions as one of its three primary Advanced Tracking totals.

For example:

Visitors: 1,000

Sessions: 1,450

Pageviews: 4,800

indicates that some visitors returned or generated additional Sessions during the selected period.

8.7 Visitors

Visitors represents the visitor measurement calculated for the selected reporting period.

For an Advanced Tracking Website, this metric works alongside the more detailed persistent Visitor records available through the Visitors area.

For a Lightweight Tracking Website, you may still see an aggregate Visitors total on the Dashboard, but Lightweight Tracking does not maintain the same persistent returning-visitor history available under Advanced Tracking.

The system includes Visitors as a primary Dashboard metric for both modes.

8.8 Understanding the Main Traffic Chart

Below the headline metrics is the Dashboard's primary traffic chart.

This chart displays Website activity across the currently selected time period.

The Dashboard's chart contains data series for:

  1. Pageviews
  2. Sessions
  3. Visitors

where those metrics apply to the selected Website and Tracking Type.

The visual chart makes it easier to see patterns over time rather than relying only on total counts.

8.9 What to Look for in the Traffic Chart

Use the chart to identify:

Growth

Is Website activity generally increasing?

Decline

Has traffic decreased over the selected period?

Spikes

Was there an unusually high-traffic day or period?

Drops

Did activity suddenly decrease?

Campaign Effects

Did activity increase after a marketing campaign?

Website Changes

Did traffic behavior change after a Website redesign, new offer, or other major event?

The chart becomes especially useful when combined with Chart Annotations, discussed later in the manual.

8.10 Chart Annotations

If Chart Annotations are enabled and the Website has annotations within the selected reporting period, those annotations can be displayed directly on the Dashboard traffic chart.

The Dashboard groups annotations by their chart date and displays them against the applicable point in the chart.

For example, you could mark:

August 1 — New Campaign Launch

and then observe whether traffic increased after that event.

Annotations help transform Analytics from:

What happened?

into:

What happened, and what business event may have contributed to it?

8.11 Selecting a Date Range

The Dashboard contains a calendar/date-range control near the top of the page.

Use it to determine which period the Dashboard should analyze.

Available preset ranges include:

  1. Today
  2. Yesterday
  3. This Week
  4. Last 30 Days
  5. This Month
  6. Last Month
  7. This Year
  8. Last Year
  9. All Time

You can also select a custom date range.

8.12 Date Range and Your Reports

Changing the Dashboard date range affects the statistics being analyzed.

For example:

Today

helps you understand today's activity.

Last 30 Days

is more useful for short-term performance trends.

This Year

provides broader business-performance context.

All Time

provides the broadest available historical view from the Website's Analytics history.

Choose the period that matches the question you are trying to answer.

8.13 Account Timezone and Dashboard Dates

The Dashboard's date-range processing uses the timezone associated with your AIUNIFY Analytics account.

This is one reason setting your correct timezone under Account settings is important.

For example, if your business operates primarily in Los Angeles but the account is configured to another timezone, day-based Analytics may not align with how your organization defines its business day.

8.14 Realtime Quick Status

Near the Website name, the Dashboard provides a quick Realtime status indicator.

For an Advanced Tracking Website, this quick status can display current online Visitors.

For Lightweight Tracking, it can display recent Pageviews.

The Dashboard periodically refreshes this quick Realtime total while the page is active. The source updates this figure every 10 seconds.

Selecting it takes you to the full Realtime report.

8.15 All Pages

The first major Dashboard reporting card is:

All Pages

Within this card, users can switch between:

  1. Pages
  2. Landing Pages
  3. Exit Pages for Advanced Tracking Websites


This lets you examine Website content from several different perspectives.

8.16 Pages

Pages shows which Website pages generated tracked activity.

Use this report to identify:

  1. Most frequently viewed pages
  2. Less frequently viewed pages
  3. High-interest Website content
  4. Important content trends

For example:

/pricing

may receive significantly more activity than:

/about

That difference can help you understand what content visitors are most interested in.

8.17 Landing Pages

Landing Pages focuses on the pages where tracked Website visits begin.

This can help answer:

Where are people entering my Website?

Common entry pages might include:

  1. Homepage
  2. Sales page
  3. Blog article
  4. Product page
  5. Advertisement landing page
  6. Campaign-specific page

Landing Page analysis can be particularly useful when evaluating advertising and lead-generation campaigns.

The Dashboard explicitly offers Landing pages as a separate page-reporting category.

8.18 Exit Pages

For Advanced Tracking Websites, Exit Pages identifies pages associated with visitors leaving the tracked Website experience.

This can help identify where Sessions tend to end.

Exit Pages can be useful when reviewing:

  1. Funnels
  2. Checkout flows
  3. Lead forms
  4. Navigation problems
  5. Content sequences

The Dashboard only displays the Exit Pages option in this card for Advanced Tracking Websites.

8.19 Sources

The Dashboard contains a reporting card labeled:

Sources

Its primary options are:

  1. Referrers
  2. UTMs


These reports help explain where Website traffic came from.

8.20 Referrers

Referrers identifies external sources that sent traffic to the Website.

The system reports a referring domain and identifies traffic with no referring source as:

Direct

Referrer analysis can help answer:

  1. Which Websites send traffic to us?
  2. Are partners driving visitors?
  3. Are search engines producing traffic?
  4. Are social networks referring people?
  5. Are AI platforms referring traffic?

8.21 Detailed Referrer Categories

When you open the more detailed Referrers reporting area, AIUNIFY Analytics can divide source traffic into categories including:

  1. Referrers
  2. Social media
  3. Search engines
  4. AI


This makes the Analytics platform particularly useful for understanding modern traffic acquisition across traditional search, social platforms, and AI-driven discovery.

8.22 AI Referrers

AIUNIFY Analytics includes an AI referrer category.

The reporting logic recognizes examples including:

  1. ChatGPT
  2. Claude
  3. Perplexity
  4. Microsoft Copilot

within AI-related referrer reporting.

This can help businesses understand whether AI platforms are becoming a meaningful source of Website discovery and referral traffic.

8.23 UTMs

The Sources card also provides:

UTMs

UTM reporting supports:

  1. Source
  2. Medium
  3. Campaign


UTMs are commonly used in marketing links to identify where campaign traffic came from.

For example:

?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summer_offer

can help identify:

Source: LinkedIn

Medium: Social

Campaign: Summer Offer

8.24 Why UTM Reporting Matters

UTM analysis can help compare:

  1. Email campaigns
  2. Social campaigns
  3. Paid advertising
  4. Partner campaigns
  5. Affiliate promotions
  6. Different marketing messages

Instead of only knowing that traffic arrived, UTMs can help explain which campaign generated it.

8.25 Locations

The Dashboard contains:

Locations

with options for:

  1. Continents
  2. Countries
  3. Cities


This helps you understand the geographic distribution of Website traffic.

8.26 Continents

Continents gives you a high-level geographic view.

This can help when a Website receives traffic across multiple global regions.

For example:

  1. North America
  2. Europe
  3. Asia
  4. Other regions

This is useful for broad international traffic analysis.

8.27 Countries

Countries provides a more specific geographic breakdown.

Use it to identify:

  1. Major traffic markets
  2. International growth
  3. Unexpected geographic traffic
  4. Campaign reach by country

Countries is the default active geographic view on the main Dashboard card.

8.28 Cities

Cities provides more granular geographic information when that information is available.

This can be valuable for:

  1. Local service companies
  2. Real estate businesses
  3. Regional sales teams
  4. Franchises
  5. Local advertising campaigns
  6. Territory-based sales organizations

Geographic Analytics should be treated as analytical context rather than guaranteed precise physical location of an individual user.

8.29 Devices

The Dashboard includes:

Devices

with reporting for:

  1. Devices
  2. Resolutions
  3. Themes


This helps explain the technology visitors use when interacting with your Website.

8.30 Device Types

The Devices view shows device categories used by Website visitors.

This can help determine how important different Website experiences are.

For example, if most traffic comes from mobile devices, mobile Website usability becomes especially important.

Device reporting can guide:

  1. Responsive Website design
  2. Landing page design
  3. Form design
  4. CTA placement
  5. Mobile optimization

8.31 Screen Resolutions

Resolutions reports tracked visitor screen resolutions.

AIUNIFY Analytics labels this report:

Resolutions

This can help Website designers understand the screen environments visitors commonly use.

8.32 Themes

The Device reporting card includes:

Themes

Analytics recognizes:

  1. 🌙 Dark
  2. ☀️ Light


This can help you understand whether visitors commonly browse using dark or light visual environments.

8.33 Browsers

The Dashboard provides a Browsers card with:

  1. Browsers
  2. Languages
  3. Timezones


These reports provide additional context about the Website's audience and technical environment.

8.34 Browser Names

The Browsers report identifies the browsers used to access the Website.

Use this information when evaluating:

  1. Browser compatibility
  2. Website testing priorities
  3. Technical issues
  4. Audience technology

If a large share of traffic uses a particular browser, that browser should generally be included in your Website testing process.

8.35 Browser Languages

Languages reports visitor browser-language settings.

This can help identify potential demand for:

  1. Multilingual Website content
  2. International campaigns
  3. Regional messaging
  4. Language localization

The interface calls this report Languages.

8.36 Browser Timezones

Timezones reports browser timezone information when available.

This may help organizations understand when and where their audiences operate.

Timezone data can be especially useful when planning:

  1. Campaign send times
  2. Live events
  3. Support coverage
  4. Sales outreach
  5. Webinar schedules

8.37 Operating Systems

Another Dashboard reporting card covers:

  1. Operating systems
  2. Visiting hours
  3. Weekdays


This combines technical platform information with time-based behavior.

8.38 Operating Systems

The Operating systems report identifies the operating systems used by visitors.

Examples may include desktop and mobile operating environments depending on collected activity.

This can be useful when diagnosing:

  1. Platform-specific Website issues
  2. Device compatibility
  3. Application behavior
  4. Technical audience trends

The system labels this report Operating systems and the individual value as OS.

8.39 Visiting Hours

Visiting hours breaks Website activity down by hour.

The system organizes activity into hourly periods such as:

08:00 - 09:00

09:00 - 10:00

and similar ranges.

This can help you understand when your audience is most active.

8.40 Using Visiting Hours Strategically

Hourly activity can help businesses determine when to:

  1. Launch campaigns
  2. Schedule sales outreach
  3. Staff live chat
  4. Schedule webinars
  5. Send time-sensitive promotions
  6. Publish content
  7. Increase support availability

For example, if traffic consistently peaks between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM, that may influence when the business wants customer-facing resources available.

8.41 Weekdays

The Weekdays report breaks Website activity down by day of the week.

This can help identify patterns such as:

  1. Strong weekday traffic
  2. Weekend activity
  3. Specific high-performing days
  4. Low-engagement days

Comparing Visiting Hours with Weekdays provides a better understanding of when your audience is active.

8.42 Realtime Shortcut

At the bottom of the primary Dashboard reporting cards is a direct shortcut to:

Realtime


Use this when you want to move from historical Dashboard reporting into current Website activity.

The dedicated Realtime chapter will explain this functionality in depth.

8.43 Goals Shortcut

The Dashboard also provides a direct shortcut to:

Goals

Use Goals when you want to move beyond traffic measurement and analyze whether visitors are completing important Website actions.

Examples include:

  1. Form completion
  2. Purchase confirmation
  3. Registration completion
  4. Button clicks
  5. Other configured conversions

8.44 Outbound Clicks Shortcut

The Dashboard includes a shortcut to:

Outbound clicks


Use this section to analyze which external destinations Website visitors are clicking.

Outbound Click reporting requires the Website's corresponding tracking option to be enabled.

8.45 Using Dashboard Filters

The Dashboard contains a Filter button.

When Website Analytics data exists, clicking this control displays:

Active filters

From there, select:

Add filter

to narrow the Dashboard data.

Filters allow you to investigate specific segments rather than looking only at all Website traffic together.

8.46 Available Visitor Filters

Depending on Website configuration, Dashboard filters can include:

  1. IP, when IP functionality is enabled
  2. Continent Code
  3. Country Code
  4. City Name
  5. Screen Resolution
  6. Browser Language
  7. Browser Timezone
  8. Operating System
  9. Device
  10. Browser
  11. Theme


Example

You could filter the Dashboard for:

Device → Is → Mobile

to focus on mobile Website traffic.

8.47 Available Pageview and Traffic Filters

Additional filters include:

  1. Path
  2. Page Title for non-Lightweight tracking
  3. Referrer Host
  4. UTM Source
  5. UTM Medium
  6. UTM Campaign


These filters can be particularly valuable for marketing and conversion analysis.

8.48 Filter Rules

When creating a filter, the Dashboard lets you choose a matching rule.

Available rules are:

  1. Is
  2. Is not
  3. Contains
  4. Starts with
  5. Ends with


This gives you greater control than simply selecting a predefined value.

8.49 Example Filters

View traffic from a particular country

Country Code → Is → US

Analyze a pricing section

Path → Contains → pricing

Study a campaign

UTM Campaign → Is → summer_offer

Exclude a particular source

Referrer Host → Is not → example.com

Analyze mobile users

Device → Is → mobile

Filters can be combined to create more focused Website segments.

8.50 Applying Filters

To apply Dashboard filters:

  1. Click Filter.
  2. Select Add filter.
  3. Choose the field you want to filter.
  4. Choose a rule.
  5. Enter the value.
  6. Add additional filters if needed.
  7. Click Update.

The Dashboard then refreshes using the configured filters.

8.51 Be Aware of Active Filters

When reviewing Dashboard data, remember that previously applied filters can affect what you see.

For example, if a Device filter is still active, your Dashboard may be showing only:

Mobile

rather than all Website traffic.

Before interpreting unexpectedly low numbers, check:

Date Range → Active Filters → Selected Website

These three controls define the reporting context.

8.52 Viewing More Detail

Several Dashboard cards contain a View More control.

Use this when the summary card does not provide enough detail.

For example:

All Pages → View More

opens the more detailed Page reporting area.

Sources → View More

opens detailed Referrer or UTM reporting.

Locations → View More

opens the applicable geographic report.

The Dashboard source provides separate View More links for these reporting categories.

8.53 Percentages and Distribution

Many Dashboard breakdowns show:

  1. Raw activity totals
  2. Percentage of the overall total
  3. Progress-style visual distribution

For supported reports, this lets you see both:

How many

and

what percentage

a particular source, page, device, or other category represents.

For example:

Pricing Page — 350 — 28%

is more informative than simply knowing the page received 350 events.

The detailed report rendering calculates each category's percentage against the applicable total.

8.54 Bounce Information

Some detailed Dashboard breakdowns can also include a:

Bounce

percentage when that option applies.

The Analytics interface labels the metric Bounce, and detailed report rows calculate a bounce percentage when bounce information is available.

Use this as another behavioral indicator when evaluating traffic sources or page performance.

8.55 Exporting Dashboard Data

The Dashboard contains an Export control when report data exists.

Available formats depend on your account configuration and can include:

  1. CSV
  2. JSON
  3. PDF


To export Dashboard data

  1. Select the correct Website.
  2. Select the desired date range.
  3. Apply relevant filters.
  4. Click the Export control.
  5. Choose the available output format.

This makes it possible to use Analytics information outside the Dashboard for reporting or further analysis.

8.56 Clearing Selected Dashboard Statistics

For the Website owner, the standard Dashboard can include a Clear statistics control.

The action applies to the currently selected Website and date range.

The confirmation warning states:

Clear the current selected statistics. This action cannot be undone.

Warning: Do not use Clear Statistics simply because you want to change the date range or remove a filter. It is a destructive data action.

8.57 No Data Available

If there is no Analytics data for the current Dashboard context, the system displays:

No data available

and advises:

Make sure you have properly installed your tracking code.

However, no data can also be caused by the reporting context.

Before troubleshooting the installation, check:

  1. Correct Website selected
  2. Correct date range
  3. Active filters
  4. Tracking enabled
  5. Website has received traffic
  6. Tracking Code installed correctly

8.58 Recommended Dashboard Review Process

For a regular Analytics review, use this sequence:

Step 1 — Verify the Website

Confirm the correct Website is selected.

Step 2 — Select the Date Range

Choose the reporting period you want to evaluate.

Step 3 — Check Core Metrics

Review:

Pageviews → Sessions → Visitors

as applicable.

Step 4 — Examine the Traffic Chart

Look for:

  1. Growth
  2. Declines
  3. Spikes
  4. Unusual changes
  5. Annotated business events

Step 5 — Review Pages

Analyze:

  1. Pages
  2. Landing Pages
  3. Exit Pages where available

Step 6 — Review Sources

Analyze:

  1. Referrers
  2. UTMs
  3. Detailed social/search/AI sources when needed

Step 7 — Review Locations

Analyze:

  1. Continents
  2. Countries
  3. Cities

Step 8 — Review Technology

Analyze:

  1. Devices
  2. Resolutions
  3. Themes
  4. Browsers
  5. Languages
  6. Timezones
  7. Operating Systems

Step 9 — Review Timing

Analyze:

  1. Visiting Hours
  2. Weekdays

Step 10 — Review Outcomes

Move into:

  1. Goals
  2. Outbound Clicks
  3. Realtime

Step 11 — Segment When Necessary

Use Filters to answer more specific questions.

8.59 Example: Marketing Campaign Analysis

Suppose your business launches a new campaign.

You could use the Dashboard like this:

Date Range

Select the campaign period.

UTMs

Identify the campaign's Source, Medium, and Campaign values.

Landing Pages

See which pages received campaign traffic.

Devices

Determine whether most visitors arrived from mobile or desktop.

Locations

Identify the strongest markets.

Visiting Hours

Determine when campaign traffic was most active.

Goals

Review conversions.

This turns the Dashboard into more than a traffic counter—it becomes a business-performance analysis tool.

8.60 Example: Website Performance Review

For a monthly Website review:

  1. Select This Month.
  2. Record Pageviews, Sessions, and Visitors.
  3. Review the traffic chart.
  4. Identify top Pages.
  5. Review top Landing Pages.
  6. Examine Exit Pages for Advanced Tracking.
  7. Review Referrers.
  8. Review UTM campaigns.
  9. Identify major Countries and Cities.
  10. Review Device mix.
  11. Review Browsers and Operating Systems.
  12. Review Visiting Hours and Weekdays.
  13. Review Goals.
  14. Review Outbound Clicks.
  15. Compare your findings with previous business reporting periods.

The Dashboard does not need to answer every business question by itself. Its purpose is to identify patterns and direct you toward the detailed Analytics sections that require deeper investigation.

8.61 Dashboard Best Practices

Use the Dashboard more effectively by following these principles:

Start broad, then narrow.

Review overall traffic before applying filters.

Use consistent reporting periods.

Regular monthly or weekly reviews make trends easier to recognize.

Verify filters before interpreting totals.

Active filters can dramatically change reported numbers.

Use UTMs consistently.

Campaign data is more useful when your marketing links follow a consistent naming convention.

Add Chart Annotations for major events.

This provides context for future traffic analysis.

Review more than Pageviews.

Sources, locations, devices, timing, and Goals often explain more about business performance.

Connect traffic to outcomes.

High traffic is useful, but Goals and conversions help determine whether the traffic is producing desired results.

8.62 Dashboard Review Checklist

Before completing a Dashboard review, confirm:

  1. Correct Website selected
  2. Correct date range selected
  3. Active filters reviewed
  4. Pageviews reviewed
  5. Sessions reviewed when applicable
  6. Visitors reviewed
  7. Traffic chart reviewed
  8. Pages reviewed
  9. Landing Pages reviewed
  10. Exit Pages reviewed when available
  11. Referrers reviewed
  12. UTMs reviewed
  13. Locations reviewed
  14. Devices reviewed
  15. Resolutions reviewed
  16. Browsers reviewed
  17. Operating Systems reviewed
  18. Visiting Hours reviewed
  19. Weekdays reviewed
  20. Goals reviewed
  21. Outbound Clicks reviewed
  22. Realtime checked when necessary
  23. Important findings documented or annotated

8.63 What Comes Next

The Dashboard gives you the overall view of Website performance, but Analytics becomes much more powerful when you learn to isolate specific audiences and reporting periods.


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