Get set up, and a sample playground

What it is

The Get set up card already ticks itself off as you add your script, see your first visit and set a goal, with an optional step to skip your own visits. It now also points you to the sample dashboard at /demo/sample — a playground of made-up numbers, clearly labelled, with every panel filled in. Hide checklist, the existing steps and the live demo of real stats are unchanged.

Why it matters

It is easier to learn the dashboard when you can click around a complete example, then go back to setting up your own site.

How it works

1. After you add a site, the Get set up card appears at the top of the dashboard. Follow the steps; they tick themselves off from data already collected.
2. Open Try the sample dashboard to visit the playground. It is made-up data, not your site, and is also linked from the public site as Sample dashboard.
3. You can hide the checklist at any time. The sample playground stays at /demo/sample.

Privacy: what is and isn’t collected

Collected

• Nothing new: the checklist still uses install, visit and goal data you already have
• The playground uses made-up numbers only

Never collected

• Clicks around the playground
• Anything about a person
• Cookies, localStorage or anything else stored on the visitor’s device
• IP addresses or user agents (used in memory, then discarded)
• Anything that links a visitor across days (the visitor ID resets daily)

How quietstats works, and the legal caveats →

Rows and limits

• The checklist shows for 30 days on a new account, until the three main steps are done or you hide it
• 1 write, only if you hide the checklist
• Core script.js is unchanged (845 B)

“Rows” are database rows written, which is what our hosting is billed on. Reads are not rows written. Methodology →