Understanding the Glass Dashboard
Understanding the Glass Dashboard
The Stats Bar
The stats bar shows:
- Realtime The number of people who have visited your website in the last 15 minutes.
- People The number of people who have visited your website in the time period selected. This is based on anonymous sessions. If user returns after midnight UTC, they are counted again.
- Views This is the number of page-views in the time period selected.
- Time on Site This is the average of the daily time on site, which is itself calculated as the median time on site for each page view.
Chart
The chart shows:
- Day of the week & date
- Number of pageviews
- Number of people
- Average time spent
The right hand side is dotted to represent today's incomplete data. It will become a solid line once the day is complete.
Data is transformed to your local timezone.
Refererers
What is a referrer?
When a user clicks on a link, the 'referring' website sends, through your browser, its address, to the destination site, which can be picked up in analytics.
Limitations
Many websites do not pass referrer anymore. These will show up as Direct / Unknown in Glass. Referrer is not a conclusive way of tracking traffic, and should be combined with UTM parameters for proper traffic attribution.
Next Page/Previous Page
Glass monitors the flow of traffic through your website.
When you activate a filter in the Pages, the Next Page and Prev Page tabs automatically appear.
Device Type
One of:
- Desktop
- Phone
- Tablet
This is calculated from the userAgent. Unrecognised device types (for example, smart TVs) will be recorded as Desktop. The numbers are unique user sessions.
Browser
One of:
- Edge
- Safari
- Firefox
- Safari
- Internet Explorer
- Opera
- Unknown Browser
Calculated from the userAgent. The numbers are unique user sessions.
Country
This is the user's country. It is calculated from the Cloudflare Geo-IP header.
External Links
This shows the number of clicks on external links recorded.
Filtering the data by a different feature (e.g. by Country) will show the quantity of users that clicked on the links.
Filtering the data the link itself will show the pages where those links were clicked.
UTM Tags
Any traffic tagged with a UTM tag is marked here.
Click on any UTM tag will filter the entire dashboard to show just traffic that arrived with this tag.
