Do you run an e-commerce website? You are going to love this simple, clear and easy website metrics dashboard. You can track 15 metrics (KPIs) and visualize their performance. The best part, it takes no more than 15 minutes to setup and use. Here is a preview of the dashboard.
Read on to learn how to use this.
How to use this Website Dashboard?
This dashboard is rather simple to use. Download the file using above link and follow these steps to set it up.
- Go to Data worksheet and enter your metrics (KPIs) and corresponding data for 2 weeks.
- For each KPI, specify the type of calculation to use. You can get either total or average in the dashboard.
- Flag any 5 KPIs to show in summary tiles section.
- Go to Dashboard. It should be set up now.
- Format various metrics if needed (for example, currency format)
- Type 1 in column B (range B11:B25) to display an alert icon 🔴 next to a KPI
- Add any free text comments
That is all. The dashboard is ready to use. Present or print it.
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How is this website dashboard created?
This dashboard uses powerful and easy to work Excel features like,
- Sparklines – for trends
- Conditional formatting icons – for percent changes and alerts
- Picture links – for tiles on top
- INDEX+MATCH formulas – to get right values to show on the report
- SUBTOTAL to dynamically show either total or average
Here is the construction process in a nutshell.
We start with input data. It is captured in below format.
Construction of tiles in the summary area:
Top part of the dashboard shows five tiles, each detailing performance of one metric. These tiles are made with picture links and simple formulas. Here is an illustration of how one of the picture links is constructed.
How the detail section of dashboard is made
The detail section of the dashboard lists all 15 KPIs and their performance stats. I have used simple formulas and SUBTOTAL formula to generate the numbers in this. The trend is drawn with sparklines. I’ve used Conditional formatting to show the percentage change icons and alert symbols.
Here is a deconstruction of the detail section inner workings.
To understand more, please download a copy of the dashboard and examine the set up.
Website Metrics Dashboard - Explanation Video
If you are not sure how everything is set up, check out this explanation video. You will learn how this dashboard is made from scratch.
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23 Responses to “Learn Top 10 Excel Features”
What it looks like if excel without formula?? 🙂
It would be not excel it would just be fancy tables in which you could just use power point. (Chandoo) would Access be an alternative?
Awesome piece of work!!!
Great article.
Chandoo - my biggest interest in the article was the awesome word-graphic at the top - where did you go to get it done into a shape?
@Rich.. thank you. I used http://www.tagxedo.com/ to generate this word cloud. I took all the comments in the original post, pasted them in tagxedo website and set up the shape etc.
Awesome Chandoo.. You need always needs coffee to start up with. BTW , how did u created the Heart Shaped picture filled with High Repetitive text in it .. Please put it on your Next blog ...
Chandoo, good article. I’ve added a link to it from Connexion – our collection of the most useful and interesting spreadsheet-related articles from the web. See http://www.i-nth.com/resources/connexion
Hi,
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I've lost a job interview recently where even though I had the subject knowledge, I was not upto their mark in Excel.
Thank you for all the free tips, guidance and for creating this forum environment.
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Hy Chandoo, you always inspire me with to explore something new in excel. This data structure table is only for excel 2007 or compatible to 2010. I recently installed latest excel version 2013 in my System and experience problems regarding operating according to previous one. I'm waiting your article relates to that excel version.
Thanks
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Hi chandoo, i am intersted in seeing the video or step by step done procedure of analysing the comments and presenting in the data percentage steps. I think this one would be first step in finding out how generally happens data calculation. Thank you.
As well i would like to know how to get that black shape art of your face which i see in chandoo. I am interested in making it for me.
Nice to see the features considered by Excel users to be most useful. It might be a good idea to also analyze StackOverflow Excel questions to see what keywords appear most often.
Here are my top 10 Excel Features (for advanced users):
http://www.analystcave.com/excel-10-top-excel-features/
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Sanjeev
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Chandoo Would Access be a better alternative than VB?