At a glance: outside the plugin's menu

Most of this guide covers GreenOrb's own reports. But three of its surfaces live
outside the GreenOrb Statistics menu entirely — they bring the numbers to you
while you're doing something else:

All three respect the same permissions as the reports — only users who can view
GreenOrb statistics ever see them — and all three are read-only shortcuts into the
full reports.

The Dashboard widget

On your main WordPress Dashboard, GreenOrb adds a 📊 GreenOrb Statistics — Traffic
Summary widget. It's the fastest health check there is: you get it just by
logging in.

From top to bottom:

• 🟢 N visitors online now — a live count of visitors active in the last
  five minutes. Every "online now" figure in the plugin — this widget, the
  admin bar and the Overview's Live panel — uses the same five-minute measure,
  so they always agree.
• Stat cards — last 7 days, each with a trend against the previous week:
  • Views and Unique Visitors.
  • Revenue — plus the order count, e.g. "Revenue · 12 orders". This third
    card only appears when WooCommerce is active.
• Views — last 30 days — a sparkline, so you can see the momentum behind
  the 7-day headline rather than just a single number.
• Today so far: N views · M visitors — the day in progress.
• Top Posts — Last 7 Days — your five best performers, ranked, each with a
  relative bar and a link to the live page.

The widget is a standard WordPress dashboard widget, so you can drag it around
or hide it entirely from Screen Options at the top of the Dashboard.

The post stats box

Open a post for editing and GreenOrb adds a 📊 GreenOrb Statistics box to the side
column, so you can see how a piece performed without leaving the editor:

• All time, This week and Last 30 days view counts, side by side.
• Daily views — last 28 days — a sparkline of the post's own trend.
• View detailed stats → — opens that post's full
  detail report (its own traffic trend, sources and visitor
  list).

On a draft or a brand-new post you'll see "Stats will appear once this post is
published" instead — there's simply nothing to report yet. The box appears on
posts; the sparkline is hidden until the post has at least one view.

Tip: this pairs well with updating older content. Open an ageing post, and
the 28-day sparkline immediately tells you whether it's still earning its place
or quietly fading.

Admin bar live stats

The most persistent surface: a live node in the WordPress toolbar, visible on
both your site's front-end and inside wp-admin.

In the bar itself you get today's view count and a live online count, with a
dot that pulses green when someone is on the site and sits grey when nobody is.
Clicking it opens Reports. The online count refreshes itself
every 60 seconds — no page reload needed.

Open the dropdown and you get five sections:

• Live — a banner with "N visitors online now".
• Today — Views and Visitors tiles, each with a ▲/▼ percentage
  against yesterday. Below them, avg time on page, downloads and goal
  conversions — each of these three only appears when there's something to
  show, so the menu stays short on a quiet day.
• This page — appears when you're viewing a post on the front-end or
  editing one in wp-admin. Shows the post's title, its all-time and today
  views, the average time on it today, and a View full post report → link.
  This is the quickest route from "I'm reading this article" to "how is this
  article doing?".
• Last 7 days — your 🔥 top post and 🔗 top traffic source for the
  week, each with its count.
• Quick links — a two-column set of shortcuts to Reports, Visitors,
  Referrers, Geography, Devices, Entry & Exit, Journeys, Web Vitals, Goals and
  Broken Pages, plus WooCommerce Overview when WooCommerce is active. A link
  for a feature you've switched off is greyed out but still clickable —
  opening it lands on the friendly "this feature is turned off" screen so you can
  re-enable it.

You can turn the whole thing off with the Admin bar setting under
Settings & Privacy — useful if you'd rather keep your toolbar
clean, or you're taking screenshots of your own site.

That's the full tour. Back to the documentation index.