Dashboard Overview
Use Overview to check visitors, sessions, page views, bounce rate, consent rate, session duration, and traffic breakdowns.
Overview is the first report you see after you sign in.
Controls and live activity
The toolbar stays visible as you move through the report:
| Control | What it changes |
|---|---|
| Live | Shows distinct visitors, distinct sessions, and all events from the trailing 30 minutes. It refreshes every 30 seconds and does not use the selected report date range. |
| Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days | Changes the reporting period. Last 7 days is the default. |
| Custom | Opens rolling and calendar presets, plus a calendar for a custom range. |
| Filters | Selects a source or narrows the report by channel, source, path, device, operating system, country, city, or event name. |
The source selection also applies to Live activity. The other report filters do not change the Live counts.
Dashboard Overview metrics
Start with the scorecards to confirm that data is arriving and understand current traffic:
| Scorecard | What it means | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Visitors | Distinct non-empty visitor IDs seen in the selected period. | Compare it with sessions to separate recognized visitors from visit volume. |
| Sessions | Distinct non-empty session IDs. A session ends after 30 minutes of inactivity. | Use it as visit volume. |
| Page Views | Events whose name is page_view. | Use it to check how much content was viewed. |
| Bounce Rate | Sessions with exactly one page_view divided by all sessions, regardless of other event types in those sessions. | Use it to find periods or traffic groups with shallow browsing. |
| Consent Rate | Distinct sessions with a non-empty visitor ID divided by all distinct sessions. It is not calculated from consent-event totals. | Use it to understand how much session activity is connected to recognized visitors. |
| Session Duration | Median session duration, excluding sessions shorter than five seconds. It is not an average. | Use it with channel and page context. Long sessions are not always better. |
Each scorecard compares the selected period with the immediately preceding period of the same length. Bounce Rate and Consent Rate show the absolute change in percentage points; Session Duration shows the time difference.
Charts and tables
Use the charts to find the area that needs a closer look:
| Area | What it helps you answer |
|---|---|
| Visitors & Sessions | How distinct visitors and sessions changed by hour or day. |
| Traffic Channels | Sessions and share for each normalized channel group. |
| Traffic Sources | Sessions and share for each traffic source. |
| Geographic Areas | Sessions and visitors by country on the map. |
| Countries, Cities | Sessions and share by location. |
| Top Pages | Sessions by page path in a treemap. |
| Browsers, Operating Systems, Device Types | Sessions and share for each technology segment. |
When to use it
Start here to check:
- traffic changes
- activity in the last 30 minutes
- page-view delivery
- channel mix
- top pages
- consent health
Check Traffic and Event Health
Use the overview scorecards and charts to choose the next report.