The Django admin is a powerful tool that most developers underuse. Out of the box it gives you a filterable, searchable table for every model — but it stops short of anything visual. If you want to see trends over time, you're staring at rows.
I recently added a PageVisit model to my portfolio backend to track which blog posts, projects, and services people actually read. After 73 visits in two days I realised most of them were bots — but that problem aside, I also wanted a fast way to see visit trends without leaving the admin. Here's how I wired up three Chart.js charts with no new Python dependencies.
The Setup
The PageVisit model records one row per visit:
class PageVisit(models.Model):
