Changelog

Today, we're excited to share a fresh new look for Dub's dashboard.

We've redesigned our dashboard to a sidebar navigation layout instead of our previous top-navbar layout. This is part of our effort to make our dashboard more powerful and support our growing product offering in the future.

A few other fixes and improvements that we shipped:

• You can now search for a full short link in your link dashboard. Kudos to Alex for the bug report and Vishu for fixing it!
• You can now see a breakdown of your analytics by trigger (link clicks vs QR code scans)
• Changes in the UTM builder are now reflected in the geo and device-targeting fields

You can now sign up for a Dub account with an email and password.

Previously, we only supported single-sign-on (SSO) via Google and GitHub. This was limiting for users who were not using Google or GitHub.

Now, you can sign up with your work email + password, and you'll receive a one-time passcode (OTP) to complete your signup.

You can now see the full referer URL in Dub Analytics. If you're a Business customer, you can also see the full referer URL in the Real-time Events Stream dashboard.

Before, we only showed the domain of the referer (e.g. dub.co). Now, you can see the full URL (e.g. dub.co/pricing), which is helpful for understanding the specific URL where your users are clicking on your links.

Learn more about how you can use this to track internal traffic/product-led growth, or check out the live demo here (scroll to the Referers section and click on the Referer URLs tab).

We've revamped our onboarding flow to make it more intuitive and beginner-friendly.

This is a huge improvement on our old flow, with simplified, guided steps for:

• creating a link
• adding a custom domain
• inviting a teammate

Feel free to sign up for an account and try it out here.

You can now import your links into Dub from a CSV file. This is useful if you have a large list of links to import or if you want to import links from another provider.

When you upload a CSV file, Dub AI will automatically map the columns in the file to the supported data fields in Dub. You can then review and edit the mappings before submitting the import.

Learn more about how to import your links via CSV.

You can now login to your Dub account with an email and password. This is convenient if you use a password manager and prefer to login with password instead of an email magic link.

If you have a Dub account, you can set up a password for it by going to your Account Security settings and selecting Create account password.

Note that this only applies to existing Dub users – we will be adding email + password sign up for new users soon.

You can now filter your analytics by continents. This is a great way to see which continents are driving the most traffic to your links.

Here's the full list of supported continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania, Antarctica.

You can also filter by continents when you export your analytics data.

We've introduced a new Notifications Center to help you keep track of important events in your workspace.

You can also choose to subscribe or unsubscribe to various email notifications (e.g. monthly summary emails, domain configuration updates, etc.).

You can now export your workspace's links to a CSV file. This is useful if you want to analyze the data locally or share them with an external stakeholder.

Learn how to export your links to CSV.

We've improved our domain management flow to make it easier to manage your domains.

Domains now live under your workspace settings, where you can:

• Filter by search term or archive status
• Add new custom domains
• Enable or disable default branded Dub domains (e.g. dub.sh, spti.fi, git.new)

Root domain links on Dub now have the same advanced features as regular short links – custom link previews, expiration date, password protection, and more.

They also show up on your links dashboard, so you can see all your root domain links and even assign tags to them for better organization.

Learn more about how you can customize your root domain links.

We've added a new Date Range Picker to our Analytics dashboard to make it easier to select custom date ranges for your reports.

You can select from a few preset date ranges like "Last 30 days", "Last 3 months", "Year to Date", or choose a custom date range. Here's a live demo for you to try it out.

This is also supported in our API via the start and end query parameters. Here's an example:

import { Dub } from "dub";
 
const dub = new Dub();
 
const data = await dub.analytics.retrieve({
  groupBy: "timeseries",
  start: "5 days ago", // natural language is supported
  end: new Date(Date.now()),
});
 
console.log(data); // [{ start: "2024-05-17", clicks: 69 }, { start: "2024-05-18", clicks: 42 }, ...]

Check out the docs to learn more.

If you're using Dub with a custom domain, your short links are now served with a noindex response header by default to prevent search engines from indexing them.

This helps avoid issues with Google Search console where short links might be indexed and show up in search results, which could potentially have a negative SEO impact.

Learn more about how the we handle noindex for short links on Dub.

mailto: links are now supported on Dub! Here's an example: d.to/mailto-feedback

You can now create short links that open the user's default email client with a pre-filled email.

This is useful for creating email links in your marketing campaigns or contact pages.

We've made a few DX (Developer Experience) improvements to our API:

1. New externalId prop for simplified link management

You can now set an externalId prop when creating a short link to associate it with a link in your database. This lets you use your own link ID to retrieve or update the link, which eliminates the need to store the Dub-generated ID in your database.

Read this blog post to see it in action.

2. Arbitrary start and end parameters for analytics endpoints

All our analytics endpoints now support passing arbitrary start and end query parameters for retrieving analytics data within a specific time range. We will be adding support for this in our dashboard soon, but you can start using it now with the API.

Check out the API and SDK docs to learn more.

3. New upsert method for efficient link creation

We added a new dub.links.upsert method for you to create or update a link in one API call. With upsert, you can shorten a URL once and all subsequent calls with that URL will return the same short link. This helps you optimize your links usage by not creating duplicate short links.

Check out the API and SDK docs to learn more.

We've added an in-app help portal to help you with any questions you may have about Dub.

You can access the help portal by clicking on the ? button at the bottom right corner of the screen.

The help portal contains articles on how to use Dub, answers to frequently asked questions, and a way to easily contact our support team if you can't find the answer you're looking for.

You can now easily transfer your custom domains from one Dub workspace to another, making it easier to transfer ownership of domains between different teams or organizations.

Learn more about how you can transfer domains between workspaces in just a few clicks.

You can now set a custom expiration URL for your links. This allows you to redirect users to a specific page once the link has expired.

Alternatively, you can also set a custom expiration URL on a domain-level. This means that all links created under the domain will redirect to the custom expiration URL once they have expired.

You can now export your link analytics on Dub.co to a CSV file.

This is a great way to analyze your link data in a spreadsheet or import it into another business intelligence (BI) tool like Tableau or Power BI.

Learn how to export your link analytics to a CSV file in our help center article.

Workspaces are a new way to organize your links and collaborate with your team on Dub.

They replace the old concept of "Projects" on Dub and are designed for teams at companies of all sizes. You can create a workspace for your team and:

• Invite your teammates to collaborate with you
• Create tags to better manage your links
• Set up SAML/SSO (Enterprise only)

If you're a Dub API user, here are some changes you should be aware of:

• The projectSlug query parameter has now been replaced by workspaceId, which can be found under your Workspace's Settings tab. We will still support the projectSlug query parameter for backward compatibility, but we recommend using workspaceId for new integrations.