We are in the midst of significant improvements to the admin dashboard that will make it easier to access and interpret data about your community’s health and value. In this topic, we’ll share what we’re working on so you can see where we are headed!
For now, this is considered a highly experimental change! We are very much in the midst of development, so please expect to see some rough edges — particularly around performance — and lots of evolution in the coming weeks. We are doing dedicated testing with a limited group of customers which is informing most of the work at this time.
What’s changing
We are updating the dashboard to serve as a hub for admins who want at-a-glance insights about the health and value of their community. At the moment, the dashboard is composed of four sections:
Highlights, where admins can view important key performance indicators like signups, stickiness, and accepted solutions.
Site Traffic, which lets you know who is coming to your community and where they’re coming from. (Note that referrer information will not be backfilled.)
We expect to add more sections soon to explore Support and Search data.
Previewing the redesigned dashboard in your community
If you’d like to check in our progress so far, head to the Upcoming changes page in your admin area (/admin/config/upcoming-changes) and find the dashboard improvements item. Update the Enabled for… field to opt your site in to this new design:
This is really nice, I appreciate the modular nature of it with how I can swap out reports and whatnot.
It would be great if these “key stats” could be made modular too, my site is mostly for documenting stuff internally with a company and other testing so lots of these don’t apply to us.
Thanks for asking I retrieve some of the following information through custom Data Explorer queries. I consider these metrics relevant for our use case.
Users
number of registered users in group X
share of contributing users (created a topic, replied to a topic), reading users, and ghost users (just clicking around without further engagement)
language setting (from the language switch)
distribution of email domains (public providers, universities, others)
Topics, Posts
number of topics / posts in self-defined groups of categories
post-per-topic ratio in these groups
Traffic
page views from web crawlers
page views from users = anonymous users + logged-in users
For now, this is considered a highly experimental change! We are very much in the midst of development, so please expect to see some rough edges — particularly around performance — and lots of evolution in the coming weeks. We are doing dedicated testing with a limited group of customers which is informing most of the work at this time.
What’s changing
Previewing the redesigned dashboard in your community
I retrieve some of the following information through custom