Title: Parse.ly Product & Support Updates
Author: rhinehart
Published: August 26, 2025
Last modified: November 12, 2025

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#  Parse.ly Product & Support Updates

 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: June 2, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-june-2-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Copy to clipboard icon appears when hovering over a factoid
   
 * Hovering over factoids now gives an option to copy and paste the full number.
   When you mouse over the number, a copy icon will appear. Click to copy to your
   clipboard.
 * This option appears throughout the dashboard.
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: May 4, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-may-4-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### See how your Overview metric compares to the 8-week average
   
 * When you set your Overview timeline graph to This Week or This Month, you can
   now see how the current time period compares to the eight-week historical average.
   Learn how to unlock this new feature from your [Overview settings.](https://docs.parse.ly/dashboard-overview/)
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/historical_context_timeline.
   png)
 * 
   ### Use Benchmarks for Conversions
   
 * Conversions are now available as part of the Benchmarks feature. [Learn how to get the most out of Benchmarks here. ](https://docs.parse.ly/benchmarks/)
 * Use the new Conversions metric to compare last-touch conversion performance for
   different posts
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/benchmarks_conversions_dropdown.
   png)
 * Or evaluate how authors, sections, or tags compare for Conversions, alongside
   other metrics like Engagement and Loyalty.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/benchmarks_conversions_sidebar.
   png)
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: April 21, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-april-21-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Refreshed color system in your dashboard
   
 * We refreshed the color system in the Parse.ly dashboard to improve accessibility
   and readability, and improve the consistency in our light and dark modes.
 * ![Channels graph view in new dark mode with higher contrasting green colors](
   https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/new_color_system.png"
   Channels graph in new high contrast dark mode")
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: March 31, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-march-31-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Conversions metrics on Overview
   
 * Overview now shows conversions metrics and the top converting section, tag, or
   conversion label.
 * Here’s how to get to “conversions mode” on Overview:
    1. Click the cog on the upper right-hand corner of the page.
    2. Click Summary & Timeline.
    3. Click Timeline Metrics.
    4. Select Conversions.
    5. Click Show Top Converting Aspect.
    6. Select Section, Tag, or Converting Label.
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: February 18, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-february-18-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Filter conversions types
   
 * Got a long list of [conversions](https://docs.parse.ly/conversions/) you’re tracking
   in Parse.ly? Now you can filter them down by [type](https://www.parse.ly/troubleshooting-faqs//kb/conversions#type)
   on the [Conversions listing page](https://dash.parsely.com/to/conversions/?metric=conversions--last_post_touched--any).
   Just click one of the types to apply the filter. To remove the filter, click 
   the type again.
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: January 19, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-january-19-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Conversions timeline on Overview
   
 * You can now customize Overview to show conversions in the timeline, instead of
   page views.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/conversions-timeline-
   overview.png)
 * **To make changes to the Overview timeline:**
    1. Click the cog on the upper right-hand corner of the page.
    2. Click Summary & Timeline.
    3. Click Timeline Metrics.
    4. Select Conversions.
 * Check out this video for more information about customizing Overview with conversions.
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: January 5, 2022](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-january-5-2022/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Create Author Groups
   
 * With [Author Groups](https://docs.parse.ly/author-groups/), you can save collections
   of authors and view their performance all at once. Create a group to track your
   team’s performance, to distinguish freelancers from full-time writers, or to 
   group together multiple variations of the same author’s name.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/multiple-versions.
   png)
 * Go to the new [Author Groups](https://dash.parsely.com/to/author-groups/) tab
   to set up your first Author Group. Author Groups are visible to all users of 
   your Parse.ly dashboard.
 * [Learn more about Author Groups](https://docs.parse.ly/author-groups/).
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: December 1, 2021](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-december-1-2021/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Copy timeline metric text to clipboard
   
 * You can now select historical data, visualized as a timeline in the dashboard,
   and copy the summary metric text (“2,400”) to the clipboard with one click. Paste
   it anywhere you like – a document, an email, an instant message.
 * 
   ### Filtering tags by Smart Tags
   
 * Use a “starts with” matcher like `Squ*` when filtering for tags and the resulting
   list will include both your site tags and any matching Smart Tags. Note: You 
   must have ‘smart tags’ (site and high-level tags, or all tags) enabled in [your preferences](https://dash.parsely.com/to/settings/preferences)
   to make use of this feature.
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: November 24, 2021](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-november-24-2021/)󠁿
   
 * Here’s a list of issues fixed with this release:
    - The tag type setting for [scheduled reports](https://dash.parsely.com/to/reports/scheduled)
      was forgotten when reports ran again. That’s fixed.
    - On post details pages, if you hover over a referrer or channel, Parse.ly displays
      a highlight on the graph to show the percentage of total traffic (e.g. how
      much search traffic contributes to overall views). The highlight wasn’t matching
      the actual percentage of traffic. But it is now!
    - We now exclude cases where visitors went to the same page again (e.g. refreshed
      the page) from “Activity after this post.”
 * 
   ## 󠀁[Product update: November 17, 2021](https://docs.parse.ly/product-update-november-17-2021/)󠁿
   
 * 
   ### Better search results
   
 * [Search results](https://dash.parsely.com/to/search/posts) now surface videos,
   break out written content into posts and other pages (i.e. non-post pages), and
   show a count of results in each category.
 * 
   ### Set conversions as the default sort metric across your organization
   
 * From [the Preferences page](https://dash.parsely.com/to/settings/preferences),
   [admins](https://docs.parse.ly/user-roles-permissions/) can set conversions as
   the default sort metric for everyone who uses their Parse.ly dashboard.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/conversions-default-
   sort-metric.png)
 * Admins can also select which attribution model, which assigns “credit” to content
   for conversions, shows up by default.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/conversions-default-
   attribution.png)
 * [Learn more about conversions](https://docs.parse.ly/conversions/).
 * 
   ### Richer recirculation metrics
   
 * Find more metrics to contextualize the referred views a given page sent to other
   pages on your site. Look under “Activity after viewing this post” at the bottom
   of the post details page.
 * You can also filter down to show just the Other posts viewed after this page 
   or the index and section pages (i.e. non-post pages) viewed next.
 * ![](https://docs.parse.ly/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2022/07/recirculation-updates.
   png)
 * In the example above:
    - “Content Analytics – Piece of Cake?” got 21 total views, from various sources
    - 25% of the views referred internally by this page went to “Content Analytics–
      Piece of Cake?”
    - This page referred 9.5% (2 views) of the 21 views to “Content Analytics – 
      Piece of Cake?”
    - This page referred 2 views to “Content Analytics – Piece of Cake?”

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