A Client Gallery With Analytics: What the Dashboard Shows

The dashboard opens on seven counters. Each shows the number for the chosen period, a change against the previous period of the same length, and a small trend line under it.

Below the counters sit eight more panels. All of them cover the whole account.

The most viewed photos panel is how you see which photos clients viewed most. Read it carefully: it ranks photos across your whole account for the period, not inside one gallery, and not for one client.

Six ranges sit above the dashboard. Every number is compared with the stretch of time immediately before it, so a trend compares like with like.

When the earlier period had zero, no percentage is shown either. Up from nothing is not a percentage, and the dashboard does not pretend it is.

Every panel above is built from all the activity on your account. Nothing on the dashboard filters to one gallery. If you publish twelve galleries in a month, the photo views counter is the total across all twelve.

That makes the dashboard good at trend questions. Are clients opening more of what I deliver than last month. Do most of them look on a phone. Is the gap between opening a gallery and sending picks getting wider. Those are questions about the business, and an account-wide view answers them well.

It makes the dashboard poor at questions about one job. You cannot open a gallery and see its own visits, its own time spent or its own top photos. A section share link does not get its own numbers either: its visits are logged against the parent gallery.

On your studio dashboard, every gallery tile carries a small dot. Green means a client has opened that gallery. Red means nobody has opened it yet. Your own visits never turn it green. A separate check mark on the tile shows that picks are in.

Three filters sit above the tiles, so you can sort the list by that dot.

The dot is yes or no. It does not say when, how often, or by whom. If a link was forwarded, a green dot cannot tell you which person opened it. For the full routine around that yes or no, read how to tell if a client has viewed their gallery. To be told the moment picks arrive instead of checking, see getting notified when clients pick photos.

A visitor is never identified. When a gallery page reports an open or a view, the server combines the visitor's IP address, browser user agent, the date and the gallery link into a salted hash. Only that short hash is stored. The IP address and the user agent are not kept.

The hash changes every day and differs for every gallery. That has consequences you should know before you read the unique visitors counter:

• The same person on two days counts as two visitors. The date is part of the hash on purpose, so nobody can be followed from one day to the next.
• The same person in two galleries counts as two visitors. The gallery link is part of the hash too.
• The hash has only those four inputs. It follows that two devices sending the same network address and an identical user agent to the same gallery on the same day would produce the same hash, so the counter cannot tell them apart.

Treat unique visitors as a daily, per-link count of distinct devices, not a head count of clients.

Your own visits are excluded. When you open one of your galleries while signed in to your studio in that browser, the visit is ignored rather than logged. The device split comes from the user agent alone, sorted into mobile, desktop or tablet.

None of the following is collected, so none of it can appear anywhere in the product.

Clients have no account, so there is no identity to attach to browsing. A name and an email arrive only when a client sends their picks, and that is a selection, not a visitor record.

Say it plainly. Some photographers need analytics this dashboard does not provide.

• You need numbers for one gallery. If a commercial client expects a report of how their own gallery performed, this dashboard cannot produce it. Its figures mix every gallery on the account.
• You need to know what one named client did. There is no trail of who opened what, and no list of photos one person looked at. If that record is part of how you sell, choose a platform that documents visitor activity inside each gallery.
• You need traffic sources or locations. Referrer and geography are not collected at all. A gallery delivery tool is not a marketing analytics suite.

If your need is the business view, meaning trends, devices, what gets picked and which galleries are still unopened, the dashboard and the opened indicator together cover it. The dashboard is not limited to paid accounts, so a free account, which holds one gallery, shows the same dashboard. The paid plan is 10 $/month or 100 $/year.

For a gallery that has been opened but has sat without picks, the next step is in what to do when a client takes weeks to pick. If the device split shows most visitors on a phone, read what a client gallery feels like on a phone.

This page makes no competitor claims and cites no external source. Every statement about clientgallery.io was checked in the product code on 15 September 2026.

• Account-wide scope: all dashboard events are read for the whole account, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• The seven counters, time spent, average time per visitor, clients left to pick, the views and favourites chart, the open-to-picks funnel, the device split, the five most-viewed photos with views and likes, the most shared or most opened gallery, and the comparison with the previous period, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• The six date ranges and the rule that no trend is shown for All time or from a zero base, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• ZIP downloads counting full-resolution ZIP downloads only, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• Visitor counting by a daily salted hash of IP address, user agent, date and gallery link, with neither stored raw; one gallery open logged per visitor per day; the studio's own visits ignored; device class from the user agent; section-link visits logged against the parent gallery; no referrer, geography or browser recorded, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• The opened indicator on each studio tile, the picks-in check, and the All, Seen by client and Not opened yet filters, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.
• Analytics not restricted to paid accounts, the free account holding one gallery, and the price of 10 $/month or 100 $/year, checked in the product code 15 September 2026.