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Dashboard Widgets explained

Written by Florian Triller-Windisch

In the Swat.io Insights dashboard section, you can combine individual statistical metrics into personalized dashboards. Starting with our Medium, Large, and Custom plans, you can create your own dashboards, customize them with widgets and save them for ongoing use.

Info: Dashboards in Swat.io are available in our Medium-, Large- & Custom-plans. You can find more details on the packages and the included features here.

When adding a widget to your dashboard in Insights, you will see a short description of each metric directly in the interface. In this article, all available widgets are explained and grouped by category. For each widget, you will find the visualization type and a short explanation to help you understand what it measures and when to use it.

Audience

Fans & Subscribers Summary

  • Type: Summarizing overview

  • Provides an overview of your total audience size and overall growth within the selected time range. This widget is ideal for quickly evaluating whether your community is expanding or stagnating.

Fans & Subscribers Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Breaks down fan and subscriber growth per channel, allowing you to compare performance across different social networks.

Fans & Subscribers

  • Option 1: Chart

  • Shows the daily development of your fan or subscriber count over time, helping identify growth spikes or declines.

  • Option 2: Table

  • An overview of the size and growth of the fan and subscriber base on the channels as of the selected end date.

Reach per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows the daily reach of your channels within the selected time range, allowing you to compare organic visibility across different networks.

Blocked Users Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays how many users were blocked per channel over time, supporting moderation monitoring and community health analysis.

Posts

Post Performance Summary

  • Type: Summarizing overview

  • Aggregates overall post performance within the selected time range, including lifetime metrics of posts published during that period. Useful for a compact performance overview.

Post Performance Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Compares post performance between channels, helping identify which network performs strongest within a selected period.

Post Performance

  • Type: Table

  • Provides detailed metrics for individual posts, enabling in-depth analysis of engagement and lifetime performance.

Key Performance Per Post

  • Type: Summarizing overview

  • Shows the most important metrics for up to 10 individual posts published within the selected time range. All metrics reflect the performance of each post over its entire lifetime.

Post Impressions Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks lifetime post impressions or views generated by posts per channel over time, supporting reach and visibility evaluation.

Post Interactions Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows daily volume of interactions (comments, reactions, shares) per channel, helping assess engagement intensity.

Post Reactions Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Focuses on reaction activity trends over time, providing insight into audience sentiment and responsiveness.

Post Shares Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Highlights how often posts were shared, helping measure amplification and content virality.

Post Bit.ly Clicks Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks link click performance via Bit.ly, supporting traffic analysis and campaign evaluation.

Posts Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the number of posts published per channel over time, allowing correlation between publishing frequency and performance.

Posts Per Type

  • Type: Chart
    Shows how different post formats (e.g. image, video, link) developed over time, supporting content strategy optimization.

Post Comments Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks comment volume per channel over time, helping measure audience participation levels.

Comments

Post Comments Summary

  • Type: Summarizing overview

  • Provides an overview of total comment activity and sentiment distribution within the selected time range, offering a quick conversation snapshot.

Post Comments Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Compares comment activity across channels, helping identify where discussions are most active.

Mentions Comments Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Displays volume and sentiment of comments on posts where your channel was mentioned, supporting brand monitoring.

User Comments Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows how many comments users posted per channel over time, supporting trend analysis.

Post Comments Deleted Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks the number of deleted comments over time, helping monitor moderation activity.

Post Comments Hidden Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays hidden comments over time, providing additional insight into moderation actions.

Comment Mood

  • Type: Chart

  • Visualizes sentiment trends (positive, neutral, negative) over time, helping detect reputation shifts.

Direct Messages

Direct Messages Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Provides an overview of private direct message activity and sentiment across channels, helping evaluate private communication volume and tone.

Inbox

Channel Inbox Actions

  • Type: Table

  • Summarizes ticket lifecycle actions per channel, including created, reopened, archived tickets and replies, offering an operational overview.

Archived Tickets Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks archived tickets over time, helping assess workload resolution patterns.

Assigned Tickets Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays daily ticket assignments per channel, supporting workload distribution analysis.

Tickets Created Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows incoming ticket volume per channel over time, useful for forecasting support demand.

Reopened Tickets

  • Type: Chart

  • Indicates how many tickets were reopened, helping identify potential quality gaps in issue resolution.

Published Replies Per Channel

  • Type: Line Chart

  • Tracks the number of replies sent via Swat.io, helping measure response output.

Time to Archive Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays median time required to archive tickets, supporting efficiency monitoring.

Time to Reply Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows median response times over time, supporting SLA and service quality evaluation.

Open Tickets

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the number of open tickets over time, helping monitor backlog development.

Inbox Performance Per User

  • Type: Table

  • Provides user-level ticket performance metrics, including handled tickets and processing times, supporting team performance analysis.

Note: This widget can be deactivated for your organization upon request. In order to do this, please consult with your account manager or Swat.io support.

Publisher

Publisher Actions Per Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Summarizes publisher workflow metrics such as created posts, assignments, publications and approval times per channel.

Created Posts Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows daily content creation volume per channel, helping evaluate editorial productivity.

Published Posts Per Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Tracks how many posts were published via Swat.io per channel over time.

Tags

Tag Channel Posts

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the number of channel posts grouped by tags, helping analyze thematic content distribution.

Tag Private Conversations

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows private conversations grouped by tags, supporting topic categorization and customer insight analysis.

Tag Mention Posts

  • Type: Chart

  • Highlights mention posts grouped by tags, supporting external content tracking.

Assigned Tags

  • Type: Table

  • Displays how frequently tags were assigned within the selected time range, helping evaluate tagging consistency.

Monitoring

Info: Swat.io Monitoring is a feature that can be added as an add-on to our Custom plans. For more information on our plans and add-ons, please visit our pricing page.

The following widgets are available for your monitoring channels in Swat.io Insights. You can arrange these flexibly in your personal dashboards.

Post Comments Summary

  • Type: Summarizing overview

  • Provides a compact overview of comment volume, hidden and deleted comments, and their sentiment across your monitoring channels within the selected time range.

Post Comments Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Table

  • Compares comment types and sentiment across monitoring channels, helping identify on which monitoring channels the most discussions are taking place.

Channel Inbox Actions

  • Type: Table

  • Shows ticket management activity per monitoring channel within the selected time range, including created, reopened and archived tickets, published replies and response times.

Archived Tickets Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the daily number of archived tickets per monitoring channel, helping analyze ticket resolution patterns across your monitoring channels.

Assigned Tickets Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows how many tickets were assigned per monitoring channel on a daily basis, supporting workload distribution analysis across your monitoring channels.

Tickets Created Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Visualizes incoming ticket volume per monitoring channel over time, helping forecast support demand on your monitoring channels.

Reopened Tickets

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows how many tickets were reopened across your monitoring channels, helping identify potential quality or process issues.

Published Replies Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the daily number of replies published via Swat.io per monitoring channel, supporting team activity analysis across your monitoring channels.

Time to Archive Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows the daily median time to archive tickets per monitoring channel, supporting efficiency analysis across your monitoring channels.

Time to Reply Per Monitoring Channel

  • Type: Chart

  • Visualizes the daily median response time per monitoring channel, helping monitor SLA compliance and service quality on your monitoring channels.

Open Tickets

  • Type: Chart

  • Displays the daily number of assigned and unassigned open tickets across all monitoring channels, making backlog development visible.

Inbox Performance Per User

  • Type: Table

  • Shows ticket management performance per team member across your monitoring channels, including assigned, answered and archived tickets as well as median processing times.

Channel Posts Per Day

  • Type: Chart

  • Shows the number of posts published on your monitoring channels within the selected time range, per day.

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