How to create public analytics dashboards for your Dub short links

Learn how to create public analytics pages for your Dub short links – with password protection and search engine indexing options.

Steven Tey

Written by Steven Tey

On Dub, you can create a public analytics dashboard for your short links.

This allows you to share the analytics for a given short link with clients or other external stakeholders without having to invite them to your Dub workspace.

For further control, you can also set a password for your public analytics dashboard, or enable search engine indexing for the dashboard.

In this guide, we'll go over how to set up public analytics dashboards for your Dub short links.

How to create a public analytics dashboard

To create a public analytics dashboard for a given short link, you'll need to first open up the Share Dashboard modal for the link.

There are two ways to do this:

Option 1: On the links dashboard, hover over the clicks counter button for a given short link and click on the Share dashboard button.

More options dropdown menu on the links dashboard

Option 2: On the analytics page for a given short link, click on the Share button in the top right corner.

Share button on the link's analytics page

Then, inside the Share Dashboard modal, toggle the Enable public sharing switch to ON.

Share Dashboard modal

Behind the scenes, Dub creates a public page for your link's analytics and automatically copies the link to your clipboard. Here's an example.

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Dub's Analytics dashboard

Setting a password for your public analytics dashboard

You can also set a password for your public analytics dashboard to further secure the page. To do that, toggle the Password protection switch to ON and set a password in the field below.

Share Dashboard modal with password protection enabled

Then, when someone visits the public analytics dashboard, they will be prompted to enter the password in order to view the page.

Public analytics dashboard with password protection enabled

Enabling search engine indexing for your public analytics dashboard

If you want to enable search engine indexing for your public analytics dashboard, toggle the Search engine indexing switch to ON.

This will make the page more discoverable by search engines like Google.

Otherwise, public analytics dashboards are served with a noindex meta tag by default, which tells search engines not to index the page.

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

How to disable a public analytics dashboard

Follow the same steps as the "How to create a public analytics dashboard" section above, but toggle the Enable public sharing switch to OFF.

Dub will automatically disable the public analytics page for the given link. You will still be able to view the analytics for the link on your Dub dashboard, but the public page will no longer be accessible.

Warning: By disabling a public analytics dashboard for a given link, your existing dashboard link will break and you'll have to create a new one – which will have a different URL. This action is irreversible.

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