Deep Dive

Deep Dive answers narrower questions than the Dashboard: what happened between 14:00 and 16:00 during the launch, and which dimension moved. It differs from the Dashboard in three ways — an exact start/end range rather than whole days, more metrics, and every breakdown plotted over time rather than as a single total.

Open it from the tracker sidebar. The range defaults to the last 24 hours.

Time range

Deep Dive takes an explicit start and end datetime, to the minute. Bucket size follows the range: a two-hour window buckets finely, a two-year window buckets by year.

Stat cards

Eight metrics, each with a sparkline of its own trend across the range and a comparison badge:

Definitions are in Metrics.

Visit types

A breakdown of the range's sessions by how they arrived, so you can see the mix rather than the totals — whether a spike came from campaigns, search, or returning visitors.

Event types

Volume by event type (pageview, event, scroll, click, input, health) over the range. A sudden rise in health events is worth investigating: see health events.

Visitors time-series

Sessions over the range as a line or bars, on the same explicit range as the rest of the screen.

Dimension charts

Four charts — Browsers, Devices, Operating Systems, Countries — each plotting its top values over time rather than as one total. This is what the Dashboard's pie charts cannot show: not "Safari is 30% of traffic" but "Safari traffic collapsed at 09:00 on Tuesday", which is how you catch a browser-specific regression or a regional outage.

Only the top values in each dimension are plotted, keeping the chart readable on sites with a long tail of user agents.

When to use Deep Dive instead of the Dashboard