Authors tab

The Authors tab, found in the navigation bar, is one of the most powerful parts of the Parse.ly Dashboard. Data on all content creators can be seen in one place, and there’s easy access to author details pages to go deeper with data specific to individual creators.

Authors lists every creator who has had readers visit their content for the selected date or date range. Users can also create and view author groups, custom groupings that allow unlimited ways to segment content performance.

Learn more about navigating Pulse and Historical views, plus how to filter Dashboard tabs like Authors:

• Pulse vs. Historical views.
• Filter the Dashboard.

Author names

Author names are collected from content metadata and are stored exactly as shared. Values such as “Jane Doe” and “Jane B. Doe” create two separate author entries in the Dashboard. Author groups can address multiple name issues — for example, two author names that should be attributed to a single creator can be put into an author group to consolidate data there. If “Staff” is seen as the author or an incorrect author name is listed in the Dashboard, there are options to update that in the metadata.