# Using the Analytics Dashboard

The smoxy RUM Analytics Dashboard provides real-time insights into your website's performance from your actual users' perspectives. This guide will help you navigate and understand the dashboard.

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### Accessing the Dashboard

1. Log in to smoxy Hub
2. Navigate to **Real User Monitoring**

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### Dashboard Overview

The RUM dashboard is organized into several key sections:

#### 1. Core Web Vitals Widget

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**Location**: Top of the dashboard

**What it shows**:

* Current 75th percentile values for LCP, INP, and CLS
* Classification (Good/Needs Improvement/Poor) for each metric

**How to use it**:

* Quick health check of your site's performance
* Identify which Core Web Vitals need attention
* Monitor day-to-day changes

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**Goal**: Keep all three metrics in the "Good" (green) range for optimal SEO and user experience.
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#### 2. Performance Trend Chart

**What it shows**:

* Time-series visualization of your overall Core Web Vitals status
* Whether your site is performing "Good", "Needs Improvement", or "Poor" over time
* Historical performance trends to identify patterns

**How to use it**:

1. Select time range (Last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days, custom)
2. View the trend of your overall performance status
3. Identify when performance changed from one status to another

**Common patterns to look for**:

* **Status changes**: When did performance move from "Good" to "Needs Improvement"?
* **Time-of-day patterns**: Does performance degrade during peak traffic hours?
* **Deployment correlation**: Did a recent deployment change your performance status?
* **Day-of-week patterns**: Better performance on weekends vs. weekdays?

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**Pro Tip**: Use this chart to correlate performance changes with deployments, traffic spikes, or configuration changes. A sudden status change often indicates something specific happened at that time.
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#### 3. Geographic Performance Map

**What it shows**:

* World map color-coded by performance
* Country-level aggregation
* Overall Core Web Vitals status per region

**Color coding**:

* 🟢 **Green**: All Core Web Vitals are "Good"
* 🟡 **Yellow**: Some metrics "Need Improvement"
* 🔴 **Red**: One or more metrics are "Poor"
* ⚪ **Gray**: No data or insufficient data

**How to use it**:

1. Identify geographic regions with poor performance
2. Click on a country to see detailed metrics
3. Compare performance across regions

**Common insights**:

* Distant regions may need regional CDN optimization
* Specific countries with consistently poor performance may indicate ISP issues
* Check if your target markets have good performance

**Action items**:

* If key markets show poor performance, consider:
  * Regional CDN configuration
  * Local server presence
  * Network route optimization

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#### 4. Per-URL Performance Table

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**What it shows**:

* Performance metrics broken down by individual URLs
* Event count (number of tracked page views)
* All Core Web Vitals and timing metrics per page

**Columns**:

* URL/Page Path
* Views (event count)
* LCP, INP, CLS
* Core Web Vitals Rating

**How to use it**:

1. Sort by any column to find outliers
2. Identify pages with poor performance

**Sorting strategies**:

📊 **Sort by Views** → Focus on high-traffic pages first\
🐌 **Sort by LCP** → Find pages with loading issues\
⚡ **Sort by INP** → Find unresponsive pages

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**Important**: Focus on pages with significant traffic first. A slow page with 10 views/month has less impact than a moderately slow page with 10,000 views/month.
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### Common Dashboard Workflows

#### 1. Daily Performance Check

**Goal**: Quick health check of site performance

1. Open dashboard
2. Check Core Web Vitals widget - all green?
3. Look at trend chart for any concerning spikes
4. Review top 5 pages by traffic - any new issues?
5. Takes 2-3 minutes

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#### 2. Post-Deployment Validation

**Goal**: Verify deployment didn't hurt performance

1. Note the deployment time
2. Set custom time range: 24 hours before → 24 hours after
3. Check trend chart for changes at deployment time
4. Review Core Web Vitals: did any metrics worsen?
5. Check per-URL table for affected pages
6. If performance degraded, investigate and roll back if necessary

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#### 3. Optimization Prioritization

**Goal**: Identify what to optimize for maximum impact

1. Set time range to "Last 30 Days" for stable data
2. Sort per-URL table by "Views" descending
3. Filter to top 20 pages by traffic
4. Sort by LCP to find slowest high-traffic pages
5. These are your optimization priorities
6. Create tickets/tasks for top 5 pages

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#### 4. Geographic Performance Analysis

**Goal**: Ensure good performance in target markets

1. Open geographic map
2. Identify red/yellow regions
3. Click on key market countries
4. Review detailed metrics
5. Compare TTFB across regions (indicates CDN effectiveness)
6. If key markets are slow, investigate:
   * CDN coverage in that region
   * Network routing
   * Regional ISP issues

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### Best Practices

#### Regular Monitoring

✅ **Daily**: Quick Core Web Vitals check (2 minutes)\
✅ **Weekly**: Review trend chart and top pages (10 minutes)\
✅ **Monthly**: Comprehensive performance review and optimization planning (30 minutes)\
✅ **Post-Deployment**: Always check within 24 hours of any change

#### Setting Performance Goals

**Minimum goals** (for SEO and basic UX):

* LCP < 2.5s
* INP < 200ms
* CLS < 0.1
* All metrics in "Good" range

**Stretch goals** (for excellent UX):

* LCP < 1.5s
* INP < 100ms
* CLS < 0.05
* Page Load Time < 2s

#### Optimization Workflow

1. **Measure**: Use dashboard to identify issues
2. **Prioritize**: Focus on high-traffic pages with poor metrics
3. **Optimize**: Make targeted improvements
4. **Validate**: Use dashboard to confirm improvements
5. **Iterate**: Continue cycle with next priority

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### Need More Advanced Analytics?

The smoxy RUM dashboard provides comprehensive insights for most use cases. However, if you need:

* Custom metric calculations
* Advanced segmentation
* Integration with your existing monitoring tools
* Custom alerting rules
* Long-term trend analysis beyond the dashboard

Check out our open source Grafana dashboard project:

👉 [Custom Dashboards with Grafana](https://docs.smoxy.eu/en/real-user-monitoring/custom-dashboards-with-grafana)

This allows you to build fully customized visualizations using your RUM data via API, all while smoxy continues collecting and storing the data.