Why does my Asana chart show more completed tasks than I expected?
The Asana help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: A task that sits in more than one project is counted once per project when a chart is grouped by project, so totals can be higher than the number of tasks.
Is it broken, or just quiet?
A number can fall because fewer people came, or because something stopped counting them. Below are the causes the Asana help pages give, and how to check each one yourself.
What causes it?
A task that sits in more than one project is counted once per project when a chart is grouped by project, so totals can be higher than the number of tasks.
In the Asana help:
If a task is multi-homed across multiple projects and a chart is then grouped by project, the task will be counted separately for each associated project.
Asana chart styles: bar, line & donut visuals | Help Center, read 2026-11-12.The total in the middle of a donut chart includes tasks counted more than once, as Asana's help pages explain.
In the Asana help:
The task count shown in a donut chart (the number in the middle) will include these duplicate tasks
Asana chart styles: bar, line & donut visuals | Help Center, read 2026-11-12.A portfolio dashboard also counts the work in portfolios nested inside it, so it can show more than the projects listed at the top level.
In the Asana help:
Portfolio dashboards are pre-filtered to include only data from your selected portfolio, including tasks and data from nested portfolios.
How to use reporting dashboards in Asana, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Check which date the chart counts by, since a chart can use when a task was created, completed or due.
In the Asana help:
Date: This can be creation, completion, or due date
How to set up reporting in Asana, read 2026-11-12.Check whether the chart counts subtasks, since a chart can leave them out or count only them.
In the Asana help:
Choose if you want to exclude or only see subtasks in your chart
How to set up reporting in Asana, read 2026-11-12.
How does Asana work with Feder?
- Connect Asana to Feder and it joins your Wins apps.
- When you connect Asana, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See whether you can trust the numbers in Asana, one of your Wins apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Asana.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why does my Asana chart show fewer completed tasks than my projects have?Asana
- Why did my completed task count drop in Asana?Asana
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
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Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Asana help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.