# Filter your data

> Narrow any report down to the visitors that matter - by country, browser, referrer, UTM, path and more - with filters that apply across your whole dashboard.

Source: https://oakdata.co/docs/using/filters

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Filters narrow every chart and list on your dashboard down to a slice of traffic - visitors from one country, on one browser, arriving from one campaign. It's how you move from "how's the site doing?" to "how do my Google visitors on mobile convert?" A filter you set stays applied as you move between reports.

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The filter bar sits above your reports. Each active filter is a chip that scopes the whole page.

## Adding a filter

### Open the filter panel

Click the dashed **Filter** button. A panel slides in with every dimension you can filter by, grouped by category.

### Pick a category, then a value

Choose a category on the left (say *Geography → Country*), search the list on the right, and select a value. Set as many dimensions as you like - they combine with AND.

Geography

Country

Acquisition

Device

Country

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United States

India

Germany

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Left: categories. Right: searchable values for the selected dimension.

### Apply - the whole dashboard updates

Hit **Apply**. Your filters become chips in the bar and every report re-scopes to match. Click a chip to change its value, the **✕** to drop it, or **Clear all** to reset.

## What you can filter by

OakData groups the filterable dimensions to match the panel:

- **Site** - domain (for multi-site projects).
- **Geography** - country.
- **Acquisition** - referrer, plus **UTM** source, medium, and campaign.
- **Device** - browser, OS, and device type.
- **Behaviour** - page path.

## Date range and bots

Two controls live in the top bar, separate from dimension filters and applied everywhere: the **date range** picker, and a **Show bots** toggle. Bots are hidden by default so your numbers reflect real people - flip the toggle to inspect crawler traffic. See [bot handling](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/bots) for how OakData classifies them.

> **Filters live in the URL** Every active filter is encoded in the page URL, so a filtered view is shareable and bookmarkable - send a teammate the exact segment you're looking at, or save it for later.

## Where to next

- [Events & properties](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/events) - The properties behind each dimension you filter on.

- [Bot handling](https://oakdata.co/docs/concepts/bots) - How bots are detected, and what the toggle reveals.