Why do my weekly visits in Metabase look different on the dashboard?
The Metabase help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: For questions built with the query builder, weekly visit totals depend on which day the week starts on, so a different start day can move visits from one week to the next. Metabase says this setting does not change SQL questions.
What causes it?
For questions built with the query builder, weekly visit totals depend on which day the week starts on, so a different start day can move visits from one week to the next. Metabase says this setting does not change SQL questions.
In the Metabase help:
Setting the first day of the week affects how the query builder filters or groups by week.
Languages and localization | Metabase Documentation, read 2026-11-12.A dashboard card keeps its own display settings, so it can show the same visits differently from the saved question.
In the Metabase help:
The visualization settings on a card are independent of the settings on the original question.
Troubleshooting question and dashboard visualizations | Metabase Documentation, read 2026-11-12.Number formatting differs by place, so a visit count can read differently when the separator setting is not the one you expect.
In the Metabase help:
Some people use commas to separate thousands places, and others use periods.
Languages and localization | Metabase Documentation, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Reset the dashboard card's display settings and see whether it then matches the saved question.
In the Metabase help:
Reset your card’s visualization settings.
Troubleshooting question and dashboard visualizations | Metabase Documentation, read 2026-11-12.For a SQL question, view the results as a table to see the raw weekly rows behind the chart.
In the Metabase help:
Go to your SQL question and change the visualization type to a table.
Troubleshooting question and dashboard visualizations | Metabase Documentation, read 2026-11-12.
How does Metabase work with Feder?
- Connect Metabase to Feder and it joins your Visits apps.
- When you connect Metabase, 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 Metabase, one of your Visits apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Metabase.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why does my Metabase dashboard filter show the wrong number of visits?Metabase
- Why does my Metabase chart show a different visit count than my database?Metabase
- 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 Metabase 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.