# Understand the Dashboard (101 crash course)
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [23 Octubre, 2017 21:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646 "2017-10-23T21:59:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Emilio_F_Castillo)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 21:59 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/1 "2017-10-23T21:59:53Z")
Is there a CENTRALIZED tutorial or walk-through on the dashboard? What each category means and what the terms mean. In general, it is well done and descriptive, but there a few terms that might come to mean more than one things and I don’t want to make any assumptions.
There is information on the forum here, but it seems scattered all over. I am hoping to spend more time studying that searching for answers.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 22:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/2 "2017-10-23T22:13:28Z")
I’m afraid that what you’re looking for doesn’t really exist. I’ve made some notes thinking that one day I’d write a manual, but I’ve been busy with actual work.
You can check out [https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto/faq](https://meta.discourse.org/c/howto/faq) and [https://meta.discourse.org/tags/faq-material](https://meta.discourse.org/tags/faq-material).
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Emilio_F_Castillo)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 22:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/3 "2017-10-23T22:25:50Z")
Thank you Jay. Bummer.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 22:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/4 "2017-10-23T22:27:08Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> I’ve made some notes thinking that one day I’d write a manual, but I’ve been busy with actual work.
It’s under redesign so you should prob wait… much of what you write will shortly be redundant.
> [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](#):
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> I am hoping to spend more time studying that searching for answers.
Feel free to post your questions in this topic and I’ll answer.
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Emilio_F_Castillo)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 22:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/5 "2017-10-23T22:52:16Z")
**Here a few specific questions:**
- What constitutes an “anonymous” page viewer?
- If a person responds to a post from their inbox, how are the responses to posts recorded in the dashboard?
- Under Top Traffic (last 30 days), shouldn’t the sum of the “clicks” equal the “pageviews” numbers? Whats the correlation?
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [23 Octubre, 2017 23:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/6 "2017-10-23T23:56:26Z")
> [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](#):
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> What constitutes an “anonymous” page viewer?
Any viewer that is not logged in.
> [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](#):
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> If a person responds to a post from their inbox, how are the responses to posts recorded in the dashboard?
I’m not sure I understand your question. If someone responds to a topic via email it creates a post which is counted in the same way as other posts on the dashboard.
> [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](#):
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> Under Top Traffic (last 30 days), shouldn’t the sum of the “clicks” equal the “pageviews” numbers? Whats the correlation?
Not necessarily. A user might click through to a page and then continue to read (i.e. 1 click, more than one pageview). A ‘pageview’ isn’t the same as reading ‘one page’. [Here is more info on how we measure pageviews.](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-there-is-huge-difference-in-pageviews-tracking-number-on-discourse-admin-dahboard-and-on-google-analytics/25306)
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### Author:  [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 00:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/7 "2017-10-24T00:20:33Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> will shortly be redundant.
how shortly…? looking forward to it!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 01:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/8 "2017-10-24T01:26:58Z")
Yeah. I was really answering for Discourse in general, not for the question he was actually asking.
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### Author:  [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Emilio_F_Castillo)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 01:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/9 "2017-10-24T01:40:44Z")
> [@HAWK](#):
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> it creates a post which is counted in the same way as other posts
Define “other posts”…other anonymous posts…?
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 01:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/10 "2017-10-24T01:47:45Z")
If a user is responding to an existing post in their inbox, that means they must already have an account. Replying to the email creates a post on the site, just as if they visited the site and posted via their web browser. Both of those actions are counted the same way on the current dashboard, as a “Posts”.
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### Author:  [@doctorbracero](https://meta.discourse.org/u/doctorbracero)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 02:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/11 "2017-10-24T02:20:03Z")
Did not know about the inbox option, thanks.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 02:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/12 "2017-10-24T02:56:58Z")
> [@Emilio\_F\_Castillo](#):
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> Define “other posts”…other anonymous posts…?
No. Other logged in posts.
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### Author:  [@HAWK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/HAWK)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 02:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/13 "2017-10-24T02:57:27Z")
> [@8BIT](#):
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> how shortly…? looking forward to it!
Good question – not sure. @eviltrout any ideas on when this will happen?
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### Author:  [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [24 Octubre, 2017 13:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understand-the-dashboard-101-crash-course/72646/14 "2017-10-24T13:37:19Z")
I have another task to do first unfortunately. But possibly later this week if all goes well?