# How common is a dashboard screen in web products?

Source: Lazyweb Research
Published: 2026-07-07
Sample size: n=11753
Tags: dashboard, saas, web, ux-patterns, design
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**Answer.** 45% of tracked web companies have at least one dashboard screen captured: 300 of 671 companies, spanning 1,088 labeled dashboard screens.[1] That makes dashboard the 6th most common of 15 screen types, behind editor, inbox, settings, feed, and landing. If you assume 'every SaaS has a dashboard,' the census disagrees: a large minority of web products lead with an editor, inbox, or feed instead.

> 45% of 671 tracked web companies (300) have a dashboard screen; 1,088 dashboard screens in all — Lazyweb Research, July 2026.

## The finding: dashboard is common but not universal

Across 11,753 labeled desktop product screens from 671 companies, dashboard is the 6th most frequent screen type.[1][2] Only 44.7% of companies have one captured, well behind the leaders.

| Screen type | Companies with it | % of 671 |
|---|---|---|
| editor | 382 | 56.9% |
| inbox | 373 | 55.6% |
| feed | 350 | 52.2% |
| landing | 347 | 51.7% |
| settings | 345 | 51.4% |
| dashboard | 300 | 44.7% |
| onboarding | 294 | 43.8% |

The 1,088 dashboard screens are 100% in-product (authenticated) — there are zero marketing dashboard screens.[3]

## How to apply it

If you're a Growth PM defaulting to a dashboard as the post-login home, know that a plurality of tracked web products don't: editor (2,119 screens), inbox (1,455), and feed (1,252) each out-count dashboard (1,088).[2] The right 'home' depends on the job the product does — a document tool opens an editor, a messaging tool opens an inbox, a content product opens a feed. Reserve a dashboard-first home for products where the primary value is monitoring state (analytics, finance, ops).

## Caveats

This is a structural census: it counts whether a dashboard screen exists per company, not what's inside it. The web corpus does not join to element-level vision data, so this page cannot say what widgets a dashboard contains.[1] Coverage is capture-based — a company with no captured dashboard may still have one. All labels are a single June 2026 wave, so there is no trend line.

## The numbers

| Stat | Computed from |
| --- | --- |
| 300 of 671 companies (44.7%) have a dashboard screen | screen_type_company_coverage: dashboard 44.7% (300/671) |
| 1,088 dashboard screens; editor 2,119, inbox 1,455, feed 1,252 | screen_type_leaderboard |
| dashboard is 100% in-product (0 marketing) | in_product_by_screen_type: dashboard 100% in-product |

## Methodology

Universe: 11,753 labeled desktop product screens across 671 web companies (sites_screen_labels), tagged with a 15-type fixed screen-type vocabulary, captured June 2026. Method: per-company presence census by screen_type. Caveat: single capture wave (no trend); no element-level join for the web corpus.

## Sources & citations

- [1] Lazyweb Research analysis of 11,753 labeled desktop product screens (671 web companies), July 2026. sites_screen_labels, 15-type fixed screen-type vocabulary, captured June 2026; structural (screen-type presence), no element-level join.
- [2] Lazyweb Research analysis of 11,753 labeled desktop product screens (671 web companies), July 2026. Screen-type frequency leaderboard across the full web corpus.
- [3] Lazyweb Research analysis of 11,753 labeled desktop product screens (671 web companies), July 2026. is_in_product boolean, fully populated (0 NULL).

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