Public dashboard & sharing
A read-only, link-shareable view of your site's analytics. Anyone with the URL opens it. No account, no password.
Where it lives
Site settings → General → Public Access. One toggle. When enabled, a copy-able share URL.
The toggle flips a flag on the site record. The URL is derived from the site hash:
A 10-character site hash. Separate from the numeric data-id in your tracking snippet — this is the public identifier shown in URLs. Not a secret, but not guessable either. Anyone needs the link to reach it.
Enabling
- Open Site settings → General → Public Access.
- Flip Public Access to On.
- Click Copy link.
- Paste it wherever, Slack, README, email, iframe.
Live within one second of toggling.
What guests see
Full reporting surface, with a few things stripped:
| Visible to guests | Hidden from guests |
|---|---|
| KPI cards (Visitors, Sessions, Pageviews, …) | Site settings |
| Main chart with timeframe selector | Billing and plan |
| Page Insights, Traffic Sources, Tech Insights, Geo, Custom Analytics tabs | Tracking code / data-id |
| Date range picker | Member list and access grants |
| Filters and segmentation | API keys |
| Compare periods | Goals editor (data is visible, the editor is not) |
| CSV export | GA4 import controls |
| Realtime mode | Delete site button |
Guests can't create custom segments, save filters, or write events. Genuinely read-only.
Use cases
- Open analytics for blogs and indie projects. Show readers your traffic the same way you show your code on GitHub.
- Investor or stakeholder traction reports. One link beats weekly screenshots.
- Team-wide visibility without seats. Engineers, support, marketing glance at numbers without each holding an account.
- Conference talks and case studies. A live URL ages better than a screenshot.
Disabling
Flip the toggle to Off. The /share/{hash} URL stops resolving and shows a Site Private notice. Existing tabs see the notice on next refresh.
There's no per-link revocation. The hash is the share key. To rotate the URL, you'd have to delete the site and re-create it (which wipes data), so usually you just leave the share off.
Privacy notes
Public dashboards never expose:
- Billing email or payment method.
- Your account, profile, or other sites you own.
- API keys or tracking code.
- The list of users with access.
- Custom event schemas or property values you haven't surfaced in a report.
What they do expose: everything in the standard reports, page paths, source domains, referrers, country/region/city, browser/device/OS, UTM tags. If any of that contains sensitive info (e.g. internal-only URLs in your sitemap), exclude with hostname blocklists before sharing.
API and SDK behavior
Toggling public access doesn't touch tracking. The <script src="…/js/<id>/s.js"> keeps recording events whether the dashboard is public or private. The toggle only controls who can view.
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