Your dashboard
Continue writing, check your website status, and understand your audience from one page.
The dashboard is the first page of the portal for each website. It brings together your website status, writing, setup suggestions and audience activity. Every count and shortcut belongs to the selected website.
Website status and next steps
The top card shows your address and one of three states:
- Live: open your website or copy its link to share. The suggested action helps you finish an essential step or continue a draft.
- Unpublished: open your private preview, or use Publish website to go to Settings. You can publish whenever you are ready; optional setup items never block this action.
- Paused: use Review plan to open Plan & billing and restore availability. Visitors see a paused page until the billing or plan-limit issue is resolved.
Your writing and messages
When Blog is enabled, Your writing shows separate counts for Drafts, Scheduled and Published posts. Select a count to open that filter in your posts list. Trashed posts are excluded. All posts opens the full list.
The main header shortcut helps you add content using your available tools. If you have unread contact messages and Inbox is enabled, a message card takes you directly to your inbox.
Setup essentials and optional additions
Setup progress counts a small set of launch essentials:
| Presentation | Essentials |
|---|---|
| Personal | Your public name and publishing your website. |
| Blog | Your publication name, first published post and publishing your website. |
Once these are complete, the checklist starts collapsed. Open it whenever you want to review your setup.
Optional additions has its own expandable list. Photos, introductions, work experience, education, links, testimonials, journeys, publication logos and custom domains appear where relevant. These do not reduce launch progress. A custom domain is marked complete once verification and HTTPS are ready.
Tools you hid in Features, features outside your plan, and profile elements you chose to hide are left out. Blog websites do not need a portrait, résumé or personal bio. A first-post step is complete only after a post is published, not when a draft is saved.
Your audience
Traffic counts cover the last 30 days, including today, or a shorter window if your plan retains less history. The dashboard shows the window beside Your audience, Top links and Recent activity.
| Metric | What it means |
|---|---|
| Page views | Visits to pages on your website, including posts. |
| Link clicks | Clicks on links on your website. |
| Post reads | Visits to individual posts. |
| Daily visitors | The sum of each day’s unique visitors. Someone returning on another day is counted again. |
| Active subscribers | Your current confirmed subscriber total, rather than new subscribers within the traffic window. |
Percentage changes appear only when your plan retains the full preceding comparison window and that metric has previous activity. Subscriber totals do not show a traffic comparison.
Top links ranks your most-clicked links. Recent activity shows what visitors viewed, read or clicked, the referral source when available, and when it happened. Visits and clicks can take a few minutes to appear; private previews do not count. Open Analytics for more detail. Hiding Analytics removes these audience panels from the dashboard.
Find your way around
- Publish holds Blog (called Posts for a Blog website), Updates and Journeys.
- Audience holds Inbox and Subscribers. The Inbox badge shows unread messages.
- Your page holds Profile & bio (Site details for a Blog), Appearance, Spotlights and Links.
- Content holds work experience, education and the other parts of your portfolio.
- Website holds Settings, Features, Domains, Backups, CV PDF and Persona.
- Plan & billing stays visible near the bottom of the sidebar, just above your account menu, with the selected website’s current plan beside it.
Groups and tools you hide in Features disappear from the sidebar. Content and Website can be collapsed to keep the navigation short.
Refreshing and retrying
Use Refresh to load the latest summary without leaving the page. If a request fails, use Try again. A failed refresh keeps the last loaded summary visible; your website and saved content are unaffected.