Top Performing Content is the table at the bottom of the Statistics page that ranks your Galleries, Albums, and items by how many views they have collected over a chosen time window. It is how you find — at a glance — which Galleries are working hardest for your site, which Album covers are pulling the most clicks, and which individual items keep getting opened in the Lightbox.
Location FotoGrids → Statistics → Top Performing Content
What it shows #
Top Performing Content is a single table listing the top 20 objects across your entire site, ranked by view count for the selected period. Galleries, Albums, and items are all eligible — they appear together in the same list, with a type badge so each row is unambiguous.
The table has four columns:
- Name — The title of the Gallery, Album, or item. Clicking the name opens the editor for that object so you can act on the row directly.
- Type — A badge showing whether the row is a Gallery, an Album, or an item.
- Views — Total views recorded during the selected period.
- Shares — Total shares recorded during the selected period.
Rows are sorted by views, highest first. The same row may rank differently under different time windows — a Gallery that hits a single viral moment will lead the 7-day list but settle further down the 90-day list once steadier performers catch up.
Time periods #
The period selector at the top of the Statistics page controls Top Performing Content alongside everything else on the page. Switching periods reloads the table.
| Setting | Time period |
| Options | 7 Days 30 Days 90 Days |
| Default | 7 Days |
Period data is read from the per-day statistics rollup. A Gallery that recorded its last view 100 days ago will not appear in the 7, 30, or 90 day windows even if its lifetime view count is high. The Statistics page’s overall totals reflect lifetime numbers; Top Performing Content reflects only what happened in the chosen window.
A new Gallery or Album will not appear in Top Performing Content until it has recorded at least one view in the selected period. Galleries that have never been loaded on a public page will not appear at all.
Why a mixed list #
Galleries, Albums, and items share the same leaderboard rather than each having its own. This is intentional: the question the table answers is “what is earning the most attention right now?”, and the honest answer often crosses object types. A single high-traffic Lightbox item can outperform every Gallery on your site; an Album landing page can outperform the Galleries inside it.
The type badge makes the distinction visible without splitting the data. If you want to look at just one object type, the per-object Views columns at FotoGrids → Galleries and FotoGrids → Albums show that view with full lifetime totals.
Acting on the data #
The Name column links to the editor for each row, which makes Top Performing Content the natural starting point for routine maintenance:
- For top Galleries, open the editor to confirm caption text, SEO fields, and external links are still current — these are the rows visitors are actually seeing.
- For top Albums, check that the Album cover image still represents the Galleries inside it well. Albums earn their views on the cover; if a cover is doing well, the Galleries it links to deserve a pass too.
- For top items, the share count vs view count ratio is often the more interesting number. An item with a high share-to-view ratio is one your visitors actively want to send on — worth understanding what makes it work.
Empty states #
If the table reads No data available for this period, the period is correct but no Gallery, Album, or item recorded a view inside it. The two common reasons are that the site is new and no views have been recorded yet, or that no public page is currently displaying a FotoGrids Gallery or Album. The Statistics Overview article covers how view tracking works and what counts as a view.
Related #
The Statistics Overview article describes the rest of the Statistics page: the headline cards, the views-over-time chart, the most-popular-galleries doughnut, and the Recent Activity table. The Advanced Analytics article covers the Pro-tier modules — engagement tracking, traffic sources, device insights — that build on the same data set.
