The Metrix Dashboard is your central hub for viewing analytics data from various sources. It provides a customizable and intuitive interface, allowing you to monitor and analyze your data at a glance.
This differs to the Craft Dashboard (and not to be confused with it), where widgets are defined per-user. While this is benefitial in its own way, in practice this is a bit of a pain to setup and manage for your clients.
Views in Metrix allow you to segment and organize your widgets based on specific data sources or goals. Each view represents a collection of widgets tailored to a particular focus area, such as website traffic, e-commerce performance, or social media engagement.
Combined with user permissions, you can even allow only certain user groups to access views. Each Metrix install comes with a default view.
When first creating a new view, you'll have the choice to be able to add new widgets to it. While this is great for a few widgets, it can get tedious for multiple widgets, which can be compounded when you want to setup multiple views.
Which is where Presets come in. Set in your plugin settings and project config, you can create one or many presets to quickly spin up widgets in an empty view.
Widgets are the building blocks of your Metrix dashboard. They allow you to visualize data in different formats, such as charts, tables, or counters. Metrix provides several widget types to cater to different data presentation needs.
Widgets can visually take up 1, 2, or 3 thirds of the screen, and are responsive.
The Bar widget displays data as vertical bars, making it ideal for comparing discrete categories or time periods.
The Counter widget is a simple, yet powerful tool for showing key metrics at a glance. It also compares data to the previous period.
The Line widget is perfect for showing trends over time. It connects data points with lines to help you visualize changes.
The Pie widget provides a visual breakdown of data in a circular chart, illustrating proportions between different segments.
The Realtime widget provides live updates on your data, displaying the current activity on your website or app.
The Table widget organizes data into rows and columns, providing a detailed breakdown of metrics and dimensions.
Each widget is customizable, allowing you to configure data sources, metrics, dimensions, periods, and width.
Periods in Metrix define the time range for your data analysis. They determine the scope of data displayed in widgets and allow for quick comparisons across different time frames.
This is something set into the settings of a widget, but can be easily switched when viewing a widget (without needing to update and save a widget).