Get started with SimpleDash

To start, sign in with the Google account that can see your Google Analytics 4 property, and allow read-only access. SimpleDash finds your site on its own and shows its numbers straight away, with the history GA4 already has.

Before you startCopy Anchor Link

You need a website that already sends data to Google Analytics 4. If it doesn't yet, follow Add Google Analytics 4 to your website first: it takes about five minutes, and SimpleDash shows numbers as soon as GA4 has some.

You don't need to add any code for SimpleDash itself.

1. Sign in with GoogleCopy Anchor Link

Open simpledash.app and choose See my dashboard, free. Google asks which account to use, then shows what SimpleDash may do.

Make sure the box for Google Analytics is ticked. It asks for one permission: https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly, which can only read. SimpleDash can't change your GA4 settings, add users or delete anything. What SimpleDash can see explains it in full.

2. Let SimpleDash find your siteCopy Anchor Link

If your Google account can see one GA4 property, SimpleDash opens it.

If it can see several, SimpleDash compares the visitors of the last 7 days for up to 20 of them and opens the busiest. The site's name comes from its web stream, so you see "mysite.com" rather than "Property 123456".

You can open any other site from the site menu at the top of the dashboard. See Switch between your sites.

3. Read your dashboardCopy Anchor Link

The top of the page shows four numbers for the last 7 days (today included), each compared with the 7 days before:

• Visitors: people Google Analytics counted.
• Page views: how many times your pages were viewed.
• Avg. time: how long a visitor spends with your site open and in view.
• Signups: how many times the action you pick happened (see below).

Under them is a chart of visitors per day, and below that the lists: where visitors came from, top pages, AI assistants, countries, devices and who is on your site right now. The dashboard, card by card explains each one.

4. Two things worth doing firstCopy Anchor Link

1. Choose your signup action. GA4 doesn't know which event means "someone signed up". In the Signups number, pick the event that does. How to choose it.
2. Share your stats, if you like. Turn on a public stats page to share your numbers when you build in public. Notes and anything private never appear on it.

What's nextCopy Anchor Link

• Switch between your sites if you have more than one.
• Date ranges: Today, the last 7 or 30 days, 12 months and any dates you pick.
• Free and Pro: what Pro adds, including the Monday email.