From 2919bcb93ef90df081a80a116fc7132cc29d24ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt McKay <mmcky@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2026 16:12:45 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Cut the dashboard caveat down to a footnote

The explanatory note added alongside the sessions relabel took the top
of the page, above the charts people come for. The substance is worth
keeping -- these are visits rather than people, and the total spans
eight lecture series -- but it does not warrant two paragraphs of prime
position.

Reduced to a single line below the charts, in smaller muted type above a
rule. Keeps the caveat recorded next to the chart, which is what
QuantEcon/website-dynamic#9 asked for, without leading with it.

No change to the data the page reads or renders.
---
 pages/analytics_dashboard.html | 27 +++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pages/analytics_dashboard.html b/pages/analytics_dashboard.html
index 2f5763f..2323f5b 100644
--- a/pages/analytics_dashboard.html
+++ b/pages/analytics_dashboard.html
@@ -47,20 +47,14 @@
   text-decoration: none;
 }
 
-.dashboard-note {
+.dashboard-footnote {
   max-width: 800px;
-  margin: 0 auto 3rem auto;
-  color: #5a6472;
-  font-size: 0.95rem;
-  line-height: 1.6;
-}
-
-.dashboard-note p {
-  margin: 0 0 0.75rem 0;
-}
-
-.dashboard-note p:last-child {
-  margin-bottom: 0;
+  margin: 3rem auto 0 auto;
+  padding-top: 1rem;
+  border-top: 1px solid #e0e0e0;
+  color: #7a828d;
+  font-size: 0.8rem;
+  line-height: 1.5;
 }
 
 .chart-section {
@@ -104,11 +98,6 @@ <h2>Analytics Dashboard</h2>
   </div>
 </div>
 
-<div class="dashboard-note">
-  <p>These charts count <strong>sessions</strong>, not people. A session is a single visit, and one reader usually makes several over time, so these figures are larger than the size of the audience.</p>
-  <p>The totals aggregate eight QuantEcon lecture series. Sessions can be added across sites; user counts cannot, because a reader who visits three series would be counted three times, and Google Analytics offers no way to deduplicate them. That is why sessions are the figure reported here. Traffic from the Chinese, Persian and French translations is included under the corresponding English series.</p>
-</div>
-
 <div id="country-users" class="chart-section">
   <div id="map-container" class="chart-container"></div>
 </div>
@@ -121,6 +110,8 @@ <h2>Analytics Dashboard</h2>
   <div id="map-container-percapita" class="chart-container"></div>
 </div>
 
+<p class="dashboard-footnote">Sessions are visits rather than unique readers, summed across eight QuantEcon lecture series. Translation traffic is counted under the corresponding English series.</p>
+
 <script>
   // Smooth scroll for navigation links with header offset
   document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {