Course One, Lesson One
Navigating the Dashboard
Explore each tab of the Parse.ly Dashboard and understand the data featured there.
The videos below will help you understand each tab or section of the dashboard — what data and insights you’ll find and where it comes from. There are suggested reading links and additional resources below to help you on your journey.
Overview Screen
Learn how to personalize the Overview Screen to display real-time site performance metrics tailored to your role, with options for customization, alerts, and detailed views.
Read more about the Overview Screen
Posts & Pages
Learn how to use the Posts/Pages tab to get key insights into your content’s performance by using the calendar, metric and context filters.
Read more about the Posts/Pages tab
Authors, Sections, and Tags
Learn how to view your content holistically using the authors, sections, and tags tabs, which are driven by the metadata collected from your site.
Read more about Authors, Sections, and Tags
Referrers
Discover how to analyze and optimize your content distribution by exploring the Referrers section, which breaks down visitor sources and offers customizable insights for smarter audience engagement.
Read more about Referrers
Campaigns
Learn how your team can maximize the effectiveness of digital marketing campaigns by using the Campaigns tab.
Read more about Campaigns
Congratulations! You finished all the modules in Lesson One!
A quick recap of what you learned:
- What you’ll find on the Overview Screen and how to optimize it to monitor your KPIs at a glance.
- How to navigate to key sections of the dashboard and what information you’ll find there.
- Understanding metadata and how it powers your Parse.ly dashboard.
- How to manipulate data to find what you’re looking for by using the calendar tools, metric selector and contextual filters.
The subsequent lessons of Course Two dive into how to use Parse.ly to support common revenue-driving goals of web and content teams
Additional Resources
Last updated: April 24, 2026