> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surnex.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Project dashboard

> Your project's headline metrics in one view — rankings, authority, AI visibility, and recent activity.

The **Dashboard** is where a project opens. It pulls the headline number from each area of Surnex into one screen, so you can see what changed without visiting six pages.

## Stat cards

| Card                  | What it shows                                                  |
| --------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Avg Position**      | Mean position across your tracked keywords that rank           |
| **Domain Rank**       | Your domain's authority score                                  |
| **AI Overview Rate**  | Share of tracked keywords where Google returned an AI Overview |
| **GEO Citation Rate** | How often your brand is cited in AI answers for your topics    |

The four are deliberately from different systems: [rank tracking](/tracking/overview), [backlinks](/backlinks/overview), [AI search](/ai/overview), and [GEO](/geo/overview). Each updates on its own [collection schedule](/projects/data-collection), so they won't all be from the same moment.

**Avg Position** excludes keywords that don't rank at all, so it can improve when a keyword falls out of the top 100 entirely. Read it alongside the distribution bar below rather than on its own.

## Ranking Distribution

A single stacked bar showing how your tracked keywords are spread across position bands:

| Segment         | Positions           |
| --------------- | ------------------- |
| **Top 3**       | 1–3                 |
| **Top 10**      | 4–10                |
| **Top 20**      | 11–20               |
| **Top 50**      | 21–50               |
| **Top 100**     | 51–100              |
| **Not Ranking** | Outside the top 100 |

The bands are exclusive, so the segments sum to your total tracked keywords. Hover a segment for its label and count.

The shape matters more than any single number. A bar dominated by **Not Ranking** and **Top 100** means you're tracking keywords you're not competitive for yet — useful as a target list, but the **Avg Position** figure above will be misleading, since it only averages the minority that rank.

## Recent Audits

The latest [site audits](/audits/overview) with their scores and status. Empty state: **No audits yet** — "Run a site audit to see results".

Because audits don't run on a schedule, this panel is the quickest way to notice your last crawl was months ago.

## Top Movers

Keywords whose positions changed most recently, from the same data as [Position changes](/tracking/changes). Empty state: **No ranking changes** — "Position changes will appear here".

Empty on a new project: movement needs two rank checks to compare.

## Backlink Stats

Four figures from your [backlink profile](/backlinks/overview):

| Figure                  | What it is                             |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------- |
| **Referring Domains**   | Distinct domains linking to you        |
| **Total Backlinks**     | Every individual link                  |
| **Dofollow / Nofollow** | The split between them                 |
| **Dofollow Ratio**      | Dofollow links as a share of the total |

**Dofollow Ratio** is the one to watch over time. A natural profile has a healthy mix; a ratio that's very high or very low is worth investigating — near-total dofollow can indicate bought links, while near-total nofollow means your links aren't passing authority.

## A new project

Immediately after [creating a project](/projects/add), most of this is empty. Panels fill in as each background job finishes — rankings within minutes, a full site audit up to an hour. You don't need to keep the page open.

## Where to go next

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Rank tracking" icon="chart-line" href="/tracking/overview">
    The full picture behind Avg Position and the distribution bar.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Site audits" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/audits/overview">
    Run a crawl and work through the issues.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Backlinks" icon="link" href="/backlinks/overview">
    The profile behind Domain Rank.
  </Card>

  <Card title="AI search" icon="robot" href="/ai/overview">
    What's behind the two AI rates.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
