Alias statistics appear on the Dashboard and the Analytics page, not on the Aliases page. The Dashboard shows alias and forwarding totals, with a weekly change figure on forwarded mail for some plans. The Analytics page breaks the same activity down by a selected time period. This page explains what each figure counts.
Where do the statistics appear?#
The figures live in three places, and each place shows different figures.
- Dashboard: summary cards at the top of the page. The exact cards depend on the plan.
- Aliases page: no statistics cards. The page heading carries a small count of active aliases, and each alias card shows that alias's own forwarded count.
- Analytics page: period figures for forwarded and blocked mail, with a time selector for the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or 90 days. The 30-day and 90-day views need a Pro plan or above.
An earlier version of this page described three cards labelled Total, Forwarded and Blocked at the top of the Aliases page. That layout no longer matches the app. A component with those three labels still exists in the code, but no screen uses it.
What does each Dashboard card show?#
The Dashboard cards differ by plan. Business and Premium plans see four cards. Free and Pro plans see two smaller cards plus a bandwidth card.
| Card | What it shows | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| Total Aliases | Aliases currently in the account | All plans |
| Emails Today | Emails forwarded today, with the daily average below it | All plans |
| Destinations | Number of destination inboxes | Business and Premium |
| Total Forwarded | Emails forwarded since the account started, with a weekly change figure | Business and Premium |
| Monthly Bandwidth | Bandwidth used this month against the plan limit | Free and Pro |
Total Forwarded is an all-time total. It is the sum of the forwarded count on every alias, so it only rises and never resets at the end of a week or month.
On Free and Pro plans, the Total Aliases card also shows a progress bar against the plan limit, with the number used and the maximum below it. The Free limit is 10 aliases. On a new account with no aliases yet, the Dashboard shows a compact two-card row instead, with Total Aliases at zero and the primary destination inbox.
What does the weekly change figure show?#
Only the Total Forwarded card carries a change figure. It reads as a percentage followed by "this week", for example "+12% this week". The Dashboard fetches 7-day analytics for this figure, so the comparison is week on week, not month on month. No calendar month comparison exists in the current app.
The badge uses colour and an arrow for direction:
- Up, green: forwarding rose compared with last week.
- Down, red: forwarding fell compared with last week.
- Neutral, dash: forwarding was unchanged week on week.
The exact baseline used for the percentage is calculated by the server, so the app code in this repo does not show the formula. The label the user sees is weekly, and this page describes only what the screen shows.
What does the Aliases page show?#
The Aliases page has no statistics cards and no trend figures. What it does show is:
- A count beside the "Aliases" heading, which is the number of active aliases. It comes from the same list request that loads the page.
- A forwarded count on each alias card, which is that alias's own lifetime forwarded total.
- Status tabs: All, Active and Paused show no numbers. The count for a tab is the number of aliases listed under it after filtering.
To compare aliases with each other, or to see one alias over time, use the Analytics page. Per-alias figures are covered in Alias Performance.
What does the Analytics page show?#
The Analytics page shows figures for a selected period, not lifetime totals. The period selector offers the last 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or 90 days.
- Emails Forwarded: emails forwarded in the selected period, with a change badge beside it. When the change is zero, the badge shows the period total instead, such as "42 in 7d".
- Blocked and Filtered: bounce rejections plus spam probes stopped in the selected period. When the total is zero, the section still shows numbers: "0 SPAM DETECTED" and "0 BOUNCES" badges, so the zero is shown as a count, not as a message.
- Active, idle and staged counts: how many aliases received mail in the period, how many did not, and how many are staged.
Because these are period figures, they fall when activity falls. A quiet week shows low numbers on the Analytics page even while the Dashboard Total Forwarded figure stays high, because that figure is an all-time total.
Why do the numbers look unexpected?#
High Forwarded total with a 0% weekly change. The Dashboard total covers all activity since the account started, while the change figure covers this week against last week only. A busy account that went quiet this week shows a high total and a flat weekly change. Both figures are correct; they cover different spans.
Blocked and Filtered at zero although rules exist. Rules are not events. The figure counts blocked mail in the selected period. When no sender was blocked recently, the figure is zero even though the rules stay in place. For detail on what counts as blocked, see Blocked Emails Explained.
Analytics figures differ from Dashboard figures. The Analytics page counts only the selected period, while the Dashboard Total Forwarded counts everything since the account started. The two pages answer different questions, so the numbers are not expected to match.
What do these stats not show?#
The current screens show no monthly trend and no lifetime Blocked total as a card. Detail is available in other parts of Analytics, and each part has its own page:
- Monthly trend calculation: the calendar-month calculation, as stated in the earlier documentation, is covered in How Monthly Trends Work. No monthly trend appears on the current screens.
- Daily volume and peak hours: the Trends tab charts, covered in Trends.
- Breakdown by category: which alias categories receive the most mail, covered in Category Breakdown.
- The full Analytics page: a map of every tab and what each one covers, in Analytics Overview.
- Forwarding itself: how forwarding moves mail to the destination inbox and what aliases add on top of it, in Forwarding moves mail, but aliases control who reaches you.
Related articles#
- Trends: daily volume and peak receiving hours on the Trends tab.
- Category Breakdown: mail volume split by alias category.
- Analytics Overview: a map of the Analytics page.
- Alias Performance: forwarded, blocked and reply figures for one alias.
- Blocked Emails Explained: what the Blocked figure counts and how blacklist rules work.
- Forwarding moves mail, but aliases control who reaches you: how forwarding and aliases differ.