Public dashboards

Share a read-only dashboard with a private link, optionally password protected, or make it fully public at a clean URL with your domain.

Turn on Public dashboard in your site's Settings to share a read-only view of its stats with people who have no Numative account and never sign in.

What a shared dashboard shows

Nearly all of it. A shared link is the real report, not a cut-down summary: the same left navigation, the same date ranges and filters, the same cards.

SectionShared
OverviewYes. Headline metrics, the traffic chart with its change, backlink, vitals, annotation, spike, mention and Google-update flags, and the Sources, Pages, Locations, Devices, Interactions and Goals cards.
Flow, Journeys, ClicksYes, on sites with Numative tracking.
Funnels, Goals, PropertiesYes, read-only. Viewers see the reports; they cannot create or edit a funnel or goal.
Pages, Speed, Errors, Anomalies, ChangesYes.
BacklinksYes.
RankingsNo. Search Console is a connected Google account's data, so it stays with the owner.
Settings, Alerts, Import and exportNo. These configure or expose the account: API keys, allowed hosts, notification addresses, webhook URLs, the share link itself.
The omissions are not cosmetic. Each of those pages is simply absent from the public route tree, so a hand-typed URL returns a 404 rather than rendering. The same holds for every write action: creating an annotation, editing a goal, exporting a snapshot and reading a page's stored text are all owner-only, and a viewer has no control to invoke them with.

Two levels

LevelURLWho can open it
Private linkhttps://app.numative.com/share/<token>People you send the link to. The token is unguessable, and you can add a password.
Publichttps://app.numative.com/share/yourdomain.comEveryone. The URL is your domain, so it can be typed, linked and found by search engines.
  • The link is minted the first time you save with sharing on. Turning sharing off disables it; turning it back on restores the same URL.
  • Password (optional): viewers enter it once and stay unlocked on that browser for 7 days. Changing the password locks everyone out until they enter the new one. Only a hash is stored, and repeated wrong guesses are rate limited.
  • Expiry (optional): the link stops working at the end of the selected day.
  • Private links are excluded from search engine indexes.

A locked link shows nothing but the password prompt: no site name, no navigation, no numbers behind it.

Public

  • The dashboard is served at /share/<your domain> in addition to the private link, which keeps working.
  • The page is indexable, so your stats can appear in search results.
  • Switching to this level removes any share password: a URL anyone can guess cannot be password-gated.
  • A domain's public URL can be claimed by one account. If another account already shares that domain publicly, you get an error and can still use the private link. Turning the public level off releases the claim.

Just the numbers

Sharing a dashboard and showing a visitor count on your own site are separate switches, because they are separate decisions. The visitor badge publishes counts and nothing else: no pages, no sources, no countries. Turn it on under Site settings > Visibility, paste the snippet it generates, and leave the dashboard private.

One switch, and a dial for how much history anyone may ask for: live only, the last 30 days, the last year, or any period including all time. Live only is the default, so turning the badge on publishes who is on the site right now and nothing about your history until you say so. The badge itself can then show any period the dial covers, counted in visitors, visits or pageviews.

What a viewer can do

  • Change the date range, compare against another period, and switch the chart grain.
  • Filter, and drill into any breakdown row, exactly as the owner can. The site's saved segments are offered read-only, like its goals and funnels: a viewer can apply one, and cannot create, rename or delete any.
  • Nothing a viewer chooses is saved to your account. Their range and filter choices live in their own URL and never touch your saved preferences, and the reverse holds too: your own defaults are never applied to a shared view, so what you send is what they see.
  • Collapse the navigation rail, which is remembered in their own browser.

The site's appearance scheme applies to shared dashboards too, so a link you send carries the colors you chose.

The expiry date applies to both levels, and sharing works the same for tracker-based and GA4-backed sites. A shared dashboard reads the site's primary source and names it, since the viewer has no switcher to check it with.