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Admin analytics dashboard now loads instantly from a server-side snapshot

The admin analytics dashboard is precomputed on the backend every five minutes and delivered with the first page render, so it opens fast even on slow connections.

Opening the analytics dashboard used to trigger a full re-aggregation of the event log on every visit, after the browser had already spent a round trip loading an empty shell. Both waits are now gone.

  • The backend keeps a precomputed snapshot per date range and refreshes it in the background every five minutes, so the metrics endpoint answers from memory instead of recomputing per request.
  • A stale snapshot is served immediately while it refreshes behind the scenes, and a failed refresh keeps the last good data - viewers are never blocked on a recomputation.
  • The dashboard page now fetches its data during the server render, so the first paint already carries the numbers - a major difference on slow connections.
  • Repeat visits within a minute are answered straight from the browser's private cache without any network round trip.
  • The same caching layer now backs the Skill Browser, the profile data behind job and event discovery, artifacts, persisted lesson content, learning paths, and assessment history - those surfaces answer from memory too, with cached data dropped the moment the learner changes something.
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