Client Gallery With Analytics: What You Can Actually Measure

The analytics dashboard in clientgallery.io reports on your account. Every figure it shows is a total across all of your galleries over the period you are looking at. It does not break those totals down gallery by gallery, and there is no filter that isolates a single client's numbers from the rest.

That makes it a trend instrument rather than a per-client report. It answers questions of the shape "how are my galleries behaving this season" very well. It cannot answer "did the Tremblay wedding perform better than the Nguyen wedding." If you want that comparison, the dashboard is not the tool, and no amount of reading between the lines of an account total will produce it.

Read that as a feature boundary, not a defect to work around. Most of the decisions a studio actually makes from analytics are account-level decisions: whether to keep designing for phone viewing, whether clients are downloading what you deliver, whether people are spending time in your galleries or bouncing off them. Those are exactly the questions a total answers.

This is the complete list. Nothing else is measured, and anything a competitor describes that is not in this table is not something clientgallery.io reports.

This is the question photographers ask most, and the account dashboard is not where it gets answered. A rising visit total tells you that someone opened something. It does not tell you that the client you are about to email has opened theirs.

The answer lives on the studio side of the product instead. Each gallery tile in your studio carries an opened indicator: a signal on the tile itself showing whether a client has been in. Above the tiles there are three filters, All, Seen by client and Not opened yet, so you can narrow the view to the galleries nobody has touched.

Be precise about what that is. It is an indicator and a filter, not a dashboard for one gallery. It tells you opened or not opened, and it tells you which galleries are sitting unopened. It does not give you a single client's visit count, time spent or device. That is the trade in plain terms, and it is still enough to stop you chasing someone who has already been through the gallery twice.

Used well, the Not opened yet filter becomes a weekly routine. Open the studio, filter to the galleries nobody has been into, and follow up on exactly those. The rest need no message at all.

The five most-viewed photos panel is the part of the dashboard that changes how people work. It lists the top five images across the account with a view count and a like count beside each one.

Two numbers on the same image say different things. A high view count with few likes usually means the frame stops people, which is a portfolio and marketing signal. A high like count means clients want it, which is an album and print signal. When both are high, you are looking at the image that should lead your next set of sample work.

The same caution applies as everywhere else on this page. These five are the top five across your account, so a single very large gallery can dominate the list for a period. Read it as a running view of what kind of image performs for your studio, not as a scoreboard for one client's set.

It is still directly useful. If the frames that draw the most views are consistently the wide environmental ones and your website leads with tight portraits, the dashboard has just told you something about your own edit that no client would have said out loud.

The device split reports the share of mobile, desktop and tablet viewing. For most studios the phone share is the number that reframes the whole delivery. A gallery designed on a large monitor and viewed on a phone is a different product.

If your split leans mobile, a few things follow. Sequencing matters more than grid density, because the client is scrolling one column. Long galleries need a way to skip ahead. And the first screen should carry an image worth stopping for, because that is all a phone shows at once.

Sub-galleries in clientgallery.io are built for exactly this. They are a studio-side organising tool: you group a long shoot into sections while building it, and the client still receives one continuous scrolling page with a jump-to bar at the top. Nothing to open, nothing to navigate into, nothing to come back out of. On a phone that jump-to bar is the difference between a client reaching the reception photos and a client giving up in the portraits.

Three things photographers reasonably expect from an analytics page are absent, and it is better to know that now than to go looking for them:

• No referrer breakdown. You cannot see whether a visit arrived from an email, a text message or a link posted somewhere.
• No geography. There is no country, region or city reporting of any kind.
• No browser breakdown. The device split covers mobile, desktop and tablet, and stops there.

There is also no breakdown of the account totals by individual gallery, which is the same boundary described at the top of this page said a second way. If a comparison between two shoots is central to how you work, weigh that before you switch.

Visitors are counted with a daily salted hash. In practice that means the product can tell one visitor apart from another within a day without knowing who either of them is. No visitor is identified, no profile is built, and nothing about a client's identity is stored alongside a view.

Your own visits are excluded. When you open a gallery to check a crop or to walk a client through it on a call, those views do not land in your totals. This matters more than it sounds: photographers are usually the heaviest viewers of their own galleries, and a tool that counted them would report numbers that mean nothing.

The privacy position is the honest consequence of that design. You get counts and trends. You do not get a list of who looked at what, because that list does not exist. For client work, where the people in the gallery are often the people in the photographs, that is the right side of the line to be on.

Analytics are part of the product, not an upgrade. clientgallery.io is one plan at $10 a month or $100 a year, and the dashboard is included in it.

Galleries are unlimited under fair use. The ceilings exist as abuse tripwires rather than as sales levers: 1,000 photos per gallery, and 250 GB of proofs per paid account, which is a working library measured in hundreds of thousands of images. A free account holds 5 GB.

Client-facing pages carry no platform branding and sit on your own subdomain, so the gallery a client visits reads as your studio. There is no seat model and no per-user pricing: a two-person studio shares one account, which is worth knowing plainly rather than discovering later. That also means the analytics dashboard is the account's dashboard, shared by whoever is logged in.

This page cites no external figures. Every product statement above was verified directly in the clientgallery.io application code on 21 September 2026:

• The metric list, and the fact that the dashboard reports account-wide totals: verified in the studio analytics page, 21 September 2026.
• The daily salted hash used to count visitors, the absence of visitor identification, and the exclusion of the studio's own visits: verified in the visit tracking endpoint, 21 September 2026.
• The opened indicator and the All, Seen by client and Not opened yet filters: verified in the studio gallery tile, 21 September 2026.
• Sub-galleries as a studio-side organising tool, and the single scrolling client page with a jump-to bar: verified in the client gallery view, 21 September 2026.
• Pricing, the fair-use ceilings of 1,000 photos per gallery, 250 GB per paid account and 5 GB free, the absence of platform branding, and the absence of a seat model: verified in the pricing section and the studio actions, 21 September 2026.