Twenty Live Dashboard Examples Analyzed for Design Best Practices
A recent analysis of twenty publicly available dashboards evaluates how they showcase essential metrics across different categories. Of these, ten employ their own SVG or canvas charts, while the remaining utilize libraries such as Recharts, ApexCharts, and Chart.js. Plausible, Simple Analytics, and Fathom Analytics each feature live demos with six, four, and six key figures, respectively. Matomo offers a customizable widget dashboard, and GoatCounter presents visit counts and trends. Examples of monitoring include Grafana Play's F1 dashboard and Cloudflare Radar's traffic views. Public data dashboards consist of the UK Health Security Agency's site and Our World in Data's emissions explorer. Best practices highlight the importance of starting with questions, strategic key number placement, and ensuring design accessibility.
Key facts
- Twenty dashboards were reviewed, all live and accessible without signing in
- Ten of the twenty draw their own SVG or canvas charts instead of using a charting library
- Remaining dashboards use Recharts, ApexCharts, Chart.js, Highcharts, ECharts, uPlot, MapLibre or deck.gl
- Plausible shows six headline numbers above a single large line chart
- Simple Analytics displays four key numbers above an area chart with a 30-day selector
- GitHub Status and OpenAI Status each show 90 daily uptime bars per service
- Electricity Maps renders carbon intensity with MapLibre and a time slider
- Flightradar24 renders its aircraft layer with deck.gl
Entities
Institutions
- Plausible
- Simple Analytics
- Fathom Analytics
- Matomo
- GoatCounter
- Grafana
- Cloudflare Radar
- GitHub
- OpenAI
- incident.io
- UK Health Security Agency
- GOV.UK
- Our World in Data
- Electricity Maps
- Google Trends
- DefiLlama
- Flightradar24
- shadcn/ui
- Tabler
- TailAdmin
- CoreUI
- AdminLTE
- Colorlib
- Recharts
- ApexCharts
- Chart.js
- Highcharts
- ECharts
- uPlot
- MapLibre
- deck.gl
- Bootstrap
- Tailwind CSS
- React
- Vue
- Angular
- WordPress
Locations
- United Kingdom