Changelog: Parse.ly Dashboard

Added

• Added a setting for admins to choose a default audience segment that all dashboard users see when they log in.

Changed

• The posts listing on a campaign page now announces its updates to screen readers.

Fixed

• Fixed an error in Google Search Insights for sites that have no Google Search Console data yet. These sites now show a message saying so.

Added

• Added Google Search Console data to the Parse.ly MCP server: top Google searches, top Discover and News pages, and the searches that bring readers to an article.

Fixed

• Fixed large tag and section exports with share columns failing to generate.

Added

• The HUD’s side panel chart can now be recolored to match your brand through the HUD’s custom CSS.

Changed

• The HUD’s side panel chart now follows dark mode, using the same lighter blue as the rest of the HUD.
• The HUD now remembers when you close its side panel, across tabs and browser sessions, and reopens the panel on the tab you last used.

Added

• Added site-specific styling for the HUD. Reach out to your Parse.ly relationship or account manager to have the HUD adjusted for your site, for example to make its metric badges smaller or more transparent so they cover less of your headlines.

Fixed

• The dashboard no longer gets stuck on a blank loading screen during a backend outage — it now shows a retry screen that keeps trying automatically.
• Fixed an illegible logo on the “Can’t reach Parse.ly” screen when the dashboard’s theme is set to Auto.

Fixed

• Fixed connecting to the Parse.ly MCP server from Claude desktop’s Code tab.

Added

• Added “Today” and “Yesterday” presets to the Publish Date picker in the Bottom Listings report.

Fixed

• Fixed maintenance notifications not appearing in the Network Rollup.

Fixed

• Fixed empty charts and stats when opening a bookmarked dashboard link filtered by a URL path.
• Restored HUD badges on posts whose pageviews sometimes arrive without metadata.

Added

• Added a resize handle to the Parse.ly HUD’s side panel. Drag it, or focus it and use the arrow keys, to set the panel’s width; double-click it to go back to the default. Your chosen width is remembered.

Changed

• Narrowed the Parse.ly HUD’s side panel so more of your page stays visible beside it.

Fixed

• Fixed the Parse.ly HUD’s side panel reopening on every page load after being closed. It now stays closed as you move between pages, for the rest of the browser session.
• Restored the explanations that appear when you hover a metric in a metric picker. They also now appear when you reach a metric with the keyboard.

Added

• Search results on a network dashboard now show which site each post, video or page belongs to, on the Search page and in the top bar search.

Fixed

• Fixed the links to the original article on search results when picking a post for a new headline test.
• Fixed search suggestions on networks without rollup opening a page that said “This view is not available for this account.” They now open on the site each result comes from.
• Restored Parse.ly MCP sign-in for clients that register dynamically (Claude Desktop, Copilot Studio).
• MCP connections stay authenticated longer between sign-ins, so tools that don’t refresh tokens silently disconnect less often.

Fixed

• Fixed author, section, tag and conversion group listings failing to load when sorted by Posts and a group had no posts in the selected period.
• MCP connections from Microsoft Copilot Studio / Power Automate no longer get stuck on a cached error response.

Fixed

• Improved the labels for the color-blindness accessible palettes.
• The “Last Accessed” time in Settings → Users no longer updates when someone opens a shared link, instead of when the user themselves signs in.

Fixed

• Fixed email and password login in the Parse.ly iOS app.
• Fixed dashboards embedded in an iframe showing a “Parse.ly needs cookies to work” message instead of loading.

Added

• Sage and the MCP tools can now filter authors, tags, and sections by a partial value (_contains), not only an exact match.
• The Overlay’s View menu has a Page fit setting (automatic, 100%, 90% or 80%) for how far the page zooms out beside the panel.

Fixed

• Campaign links in Top Campaigns reports now open the campaign’s detail page instead of a “page not found” error.
• Fixed the Parse.ly HUD overlapping page content on right-to-left Arabic sites.
• Sites with sticky headers or footers no longer see them drift across the page while the Overlay panel is open.
• Fixed the Parse.ly HUD overlapping page content on right-to-left Arabic sites.

Added

• Engaged minutes for new and returning visitors can now be picked as the primary metric in the Parse.ly MCP and Sage analytics tools.
• Sage and the MCP server can now return a single video’s detail: the pages it played on with the video’s starts and watched minutes on each, plus its totals and timeline.

Added

• Color vision modes in the Overlay. The View menu now offers palettes tuned for red-green, blue-yellow and monochrome color vision, each chosen so that performance levels stay distinguishable. The setting is independent of the light and dark themes, and the existing colors remain the default.
• The Overlay panel can now be docked to the left or right side of the page.

Added

• Added an Export option to the Categories tab under Referrers, which downloads the full referrer breakdown by category as a spreadsheet or CSV.
• Sage app can now answer Parse.ly usage and adoption questions, such as active users, reports run, and API calls per endpoint.
• Sage now answers Parse.ly dashboard-usage and adoption questions, including for a specific past month (e.g. “dashboard usage for February 2026”).

Changed

• Signal now measures conversion-based scores using your site’s conversion attribution model of preference, and site admins can choose a different one for Signal from the KPI Metrics page.

Fixed

• Author, tag, section, campaign, referrer, and conversion groups beyond the first 100 are now available in filters, reports, and group management. Previously a site with many groups could see a group in its listing but not select it as a filter or edit it.
• Fixed the Sage chat sometimes staying stuck loading after a reply finished.
• Fixed Sage documentation links: removed duplicates, made same-named links distinct, and stopped showing bare URLs.

Added

• Match Any (OR logic) added to the Title filter.

Fixed

• Fixed several pages being cut off on mobile, including the filter panel, referrer groups, the goal history chart, and shared links.
• Sage and MCP historical queries that send full ISO timestamps for start/end now query the requested dates instead of today or the real-time window.
• Sage answers questions that name no date range by picking a recent window and saying which one, instead of asking.
• Sage finds topics that only exist as smart tags, and no longer reports them as missing.
• Recirculation rate listings carry the post title, section, author and publish date.

Fixed

• Fixed the Channels, Campaigns and Conversions sections on post detail pages showing sitewide totals instead of data for the post being viewed.
• Stopped sending alerts and alert error emails to users who no longer have access to a site.
• Printing a page with a pulse chart no longer cuts the chart off at the right edge.

Added

• We’re experimenting with new ways of exporting large amounts of data. If you’d like to try it out, contact support and ask to be included in the Bulk Exports beta!

Fixed

• Closing the Heads Up Display now sticks. It stays closed as you move between pages until you reopen it from the Parse.ly leaf.

Added

• A public Parse.ly changelog at docs.parse.ly/changelog. New features, changes, and fixes to the Parse.ly Dashboard now publish there automatically as they ship.