The scope bar
Every dashboard shares one control bar. Learn it once and you can read all of them, because each dashboard is just the same questions asked of whatever slice the scope bar currently describes.
The scope bar sits at the top of every dashboard. It answers one thing: which slice of data am I looking at? Four controls define that slice, the app, the period, the audience, and the filters. Changing any of them re-scopes the whole page at once, so every KPI, chart, and table below updates together.
What it controls #
The scope bar is the shared mental model behind every dashboard in this section. It is documented here once so the dashboard pages can refer back to it rather than repeat it. The four controls are:
- App: which app's data you see.
- Period: the time range the data covers.
- Audience: humans, bots, or both.
- Filters: cross-cutting dimensions like country, device, or browser.
App picker #
Pick which app to read. Each app is one site or product you measure, identified by its app ID. Every dashboard scopes to a single app, so the app picker is the first choice you make. See Apps for how apps are created and named.
Period picker #
The period sets the time window every metric is computed over. Choose a preset or a custom range:
- Last 24h
- Last 72h
- Last 7 days
- Last 28 days
- Last 3 months
- Custom range: pick your own start and end.
Where a dashboard shows a change versus the previous period, that comparison uses an equal-length window immediately before the one you selected. A 7-day period compares against the 7 days before it.
Audience toggle #
Smartizy classifies traffic so a wall of crawlers never distorts your real-user numbers. The audience toggle switches which population a dashboard reports on:
| Setting | Who it includes |
|---|---|
| Humans | Real visitors. This is the default, and the right view for almost every question. |
| Bots | Crawlers and automated agents. Useful for auditing how much of your traffic is non-human. |
| All | Humans and bots combined. |
Filters drawer #
Open the Filters drawer to narrow to a subset of traffic. Each filter is a multi-select, and the filters combine with AND, so picking Chrome and Germany shows only Chrome sessions from Germany. The dimensions are:
- Platform
- Environment (for example production or staging)
- Device type
- Country
- Browser
- Operating system
The values offered come from the data the app has actually sent, so the pickers only list countries, browsers, and operating systems that have appeared.
How to read every dashboard #
Think of the scope bar as the question's subject and the dashboard as the answer. Set the app, the period, the audience, and any filters, and the dashboard answers its question for exactly that slice. To compare two slices, change one control and watch what moves.