Filtering the Dashboard

The search bar above the KPI strip filters every panel on the page at once — KPIs, big chart, world map, Top Pages, Top Referrers, everything. The URL updates as you type so you can bookmark or share a filtered view.

Press ⌘F / Ctrl+F anywhere on the page to focus the input.

Available keys

Anything you type without a key prefix becomes a free-text search.

Time ranges

In addition to the range chips at the top-left (1h / 24h / 7d / …), you can type a custom time window directly into the search bar using natural language. We parse it with chrono-node, so most phrasings just work.

Examples:

from:"2 days ago" to:today
@"last 48 hours"
from:"2026-05-15 14:00"
@yesterday

When a time token is present, it overrides the range chip — your chip selection is ignored while the window comes from the input. The window becomes a yellow chip with a clock icon; click × on it to drop the time tokens and fall back to the chip.

Bucket size auto-picks based on window length: ≤48h → hourly buckets, longer → daily.

The previous period for comparison mirrors your custom window: a 2-day window compares against the 2 days immediately before it.

Multiple values: OR

Multiple values: OR

Separate values with a pipe to match any of them:

country:RO|US|DE

Works with quoted values too:

path:"/pricing"|"/signup"

Negation

Prefix the key with ! to exclude:

!device:mobile
!path:/admin
!country:RU|CN

Mix include and exclude on the same key — both are respected:

country:RO !country:US

(Translates to “Romania, but not the US” — useful when one of your OR values needs to be carved out.)

Quoted values for spaces or special characters

Wrap in double quotes when the value contains spaces or pipes:

visitor_id:"abc 123"
path:"/o'reilly"

Combining keys

Stack as many as you need, space-separated. They’re ANDed together:

path:/checkout country:RO !device:mobile event_type:custom

Reads: “Custom events fired by Romanian non-mobile visitors on /checkout pages.”

Chips

Once applied, each filter becomes a removable chip below the search bar. Click the chip’s × to drop just that one without retyping the whole query.

Compare toggle

To the right of the search input, the “Compare prev” pill toggles previous-period comparison. When on, panels that support it (Top Pages, Top Referrers, Top Countries, Custom Events) show a delta chip per row: +12% (green) or −4% (red) vs the equivalent prior window.

Combine compare with a filter to answer “How is RO traffic on /pricing trending vs last week?” — flip the range chip to 7d, type path:/pricing country:RO, toggle compare.

URL state

The full filter + compare + range live in the URL:

/web-analytics?range=7d&filter=path%3A%2Fprojects%20country%3ARO&compare=1

Bookmarkable, shareable, surviving reloads. Hitting refresh keeps the current view.

Tips

• The range chip (top-left) controls the time window — filters control what’s in it. They’re independent, unless you’ve typed a from:/to:/@… time token, in which case the input takes over and the chip is ignored.
• Free text without a key (checkout) matches both path AND url. Use path:checkout to limit to path only.
• event_type:custom paired with custom_event_name:foo is the cleanest way to scope the dashboard to one specific event.
• For ad-hoc investigation (“what happened between 14:00 and 16:00 yesterday?”), reach for from:"yesterday 14:00" to:"yesterday 16:00" instead of fighting the range chips.

Next

• Compare & Trends
• Visitor Detail Drawer