# Web product-surface censuses (dashboards, settings, feeds)

Source: Lazyweb Research
17 data-backed questions on Web product-surface censuses (dashboards, settings, feeds).
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## Questions

- [Banking home screens: balances, actions, and empty activity](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/banking-home-balance-and-transaction-states)
  Capital One’s captured checking overview distinguishes available and current balance above money actions. Discover’s captured credit-card home separates current balance, payment information, and rece…
- [How common is a dashboard screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-a-dashboard-screen-in-web-products)
  45% of tracked web companies have at least one dashboard screen captured: 300 of 671 companies, spanning 1,088 labeled dashboard screens. That makes dashboard the 6th most common of 15 screen types,…
- [What are the most common screen types in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/what-are-the-most-common-web-product-screen-types)
  Editor leads: 2,119 of 11,753 labeled web screens (18%), present in 57% of tracked companies (382 of 671). Inbox, settings, feed, and landing follow closely, each in roughly half of companies. Dashbo…
- [How common is a dedicated settings screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-a-settings-screen-in-web-products)
  51% of tracked web companies have a settings screen captured: 345 of 671 companies, across 1,351 labeled screens — the 3rd most common screen type. Settings is 100% in-product, so it never appears in…
- [What share of web product screens are in-product vs marketing?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/what-share-of-web-product-screens-are-in-product-vs-marketing)
  82% of labeled web product screens are in-product (authenticated app): 9,645 of 11,753, vs 2,108 (18%) marketing/pre-auth. This is the highest-confidence split in the corpus — the is_in_product flag…
- [Which web product screen types live behind login vs in marketing?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/which-web-screen-types-are-in-product-vs-marketing)
  Eight screen types are 100% in-product and one (landing, 1,238 screens) is 100% marketing. Five types straddle the auth boundary — signup, pricing, checkout, paywall, and browse_search — with signup…
- [Do content products structure home feed-first or search-first?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/feed-first-or-search-first-how-content-products-structure-home)
  Content and consumer verticals are feed-first, not search-first. In News (224 screens/7 companies), feed dominates with 71 screens; in Music (113/6), feed leads with 50. Search-led home is the except…
- [Are B2B and SaaS products dashboard-first or something else?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/are-b2b-saas-products-dashboard-first-or-editor-first)
  B2B verticals split by sub-type: Finance is dashboard-first (38 dashboard screens lead its mix of 170), but SaaS and Developer Tools are editor- and settings-forward, not dashboard-first. In SaaS (25…
- [What share of web products have the full dashboard + settings + onboarding spine?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/what-share-of-web-products-have-the-full-product-spine)
  Only 20% of tracked web companies have all three core in-product screens captured together: 134 of 671 have a dashboard AND a settings AND an onboarding screen. Individually each is far more common (…
- [How many distinct product screens does a typical web company have?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-many-product-screens-does-a-typical-web-company-have)
  The median tracked web company has 10 labeled product screens, but the average is 17.5 — pulled up by a long tail reaching 135 screens for the deepest product. The range runs 1 to 135 across 671 comp…
- [How common is an inbox or messaging screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-an-inbox-screen-in-web-products)
  56% of tracked web companies have an inbox screen: 373 of 671, across 1,455 labeled screens — the 2nd most common screen type overall. Inbox is 100% in-product. It's more common than dashboard, which…
- [How common is an editor / canvas screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-an-editor-screen-in-web-products)
  Editor is the single most common web product screen: 2,119 labeled screens across 382 of 671 companies (57%). It's 100% in-product and out-counts dashboard nearly 2:1. The pattern reflects how many m…
- [How common is a feed screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-a-feed-screen-in-web-products)
  52% of tracked web companies have a feed screen: 350 of 671, across 1,252 labeled screens — the 4th most common type. Feed is 100% in-product. It slightly out-covers landing and dashboard by company…
- [How common is a dedicated onboarding screen in web products?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-an-onboarding-screen-in-web-products)
  44% of tracked web companies have an onboarding screen captured: 294 of 671, across 927 labeled screens. Onboarding is 100% in-product — it begins after authentication in this corpus, not before. Saa…
- [What monetization surfaces do web products actually use — pricing, checkout, or paywalls?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-web-products-handle-monetization-pricing-checkout-cancellation)
  Web monetization runs through pricing (183 screens/147 companies), checkout (296/152), and cancellation (135/105) — not paywalls. Web paywall is negligible: 38 screens across 33 companies (5% of comp…
- [How common is a pricing page in web products, and is it marketing or in-product?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/how-common-is-a-pricing-page-in-web-products)
  22% of tracked web companies have a pricing page captured: 147 of 671, across 183 labeled screens. Pricing is mostly a marketing/pre-auth surface — 129 of 183 screens sit outside the product, vs 54 i…
- [Which product surfaces do productivity web tools lead with?](https://design.lazyweb.com/blog/which-product-surfaces-does-the-productivity-vertical-lead-with)
  Productivity is the deepest-covered web vertical (983 screens across 34 companies) and it's editor-first: editor leads with 261 screens, present in 28 of 34 companies. Inbox (136), settings (114), an…
