📊 Statistics & Data Visualization
LibrePhotos includes a Statistics section with several interactive visualizations that help you explore patterns in your photo library. It is not in the main sidebar — open it from the Statistics / Explore charts card at the top of the Library page (reach the Library page from the avatar menu in the top-right corner → Library), or press Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on macOS) and search for "Statistics". You can also go straight to /statistics. The section opens on the Place Tree view, and a tab bar at the top lets you switch between the five views.
Place Tree
The Place Tree shows all your photo locations organized in a hierarchical tree — from countries down to regions and cities. This gives you a bird's-eye view of everywhere you've taken photos.
- Multiple layouts — Switch between the tree layout (shown horizontally or vertically) and a radial layout
- Link style — Switch the connectors between curved, step and straight lines
- Expand / collapse — Click on any node to expand or collapse its children
- Pan — Drag anywhere on the canvas to move around the tree
- Zoom — Scroll to zoom, or use the zoom in / out / reset buttons; the keyboard shortcuts
+,-and0(reset) also work - Hover — Hover over a node to see its full name and photo count
Timeline
The Timeline view provides two charts that show how your photo-taking habits have changed over time:
Photo Count per Month
A bar chart showing how many photos you took each month. This makes it easy to spot busy months (vacations, events) vs. quieter periods.
Location Duration
A single horizontal stacked bar spanning your whole library, laid out chronologically. Each colored segment is one continuous stay at a location, and the segment's width shows how long that stay lasted. Hover over a segment to see the location name and the month-and-year range it covers; the color legend underneath lists every segment. Note that each stay gets its own color, so a place you visited more than once appears more than once. This is great for seeing travel patterns at a glance.
Word Clouds
Three interactive word clouds generated from your photo library:
| Cloud | Based on |
|---|---|
| Places | Place names from reverse geocoding (postcodes and points of interest are skipped) |
| Things | Scene tags from the Places365 classifier — its scene categories, scene attributes and the indoor/outdoor label. The categories and attributes are also what populate your Things albums. |
| People | Names of recognized people in your photos |
Each cloud shows at most the top 100 terms, and larger words appear more frequently in your library. Click on any word to search for photos matching that term.
The Things cloud is only populated when your photos are tagged with the Places365 model. With the SigLIP 2 tagging model its tags are stored differently, so this cloud stays empty.
Social Graph
A force-directed graph showing the relationships between people in your photos. Each node represents a person, and edges connect people who appear together in the same photos.
- Nodes are all drawn the same size and labeled with the person's name; a node's outline turns orange when you hover over it
- Edges connect people who appear together in at least one photo — the graph is unweighted, so every node and edge is drawn the same size
- Drag nodes to rearrange the layout
- Zoom to explore dense areas of the graph
This is a fun way to see who shows up in photos together.
Face Clusters
A scatter plot of every detected face in your library. Each dot is one face, positioned by a projection of its face embedding, so faces that look alike land close together — this gives you an overview of how well face recognition has separated people.
- Color identifies the person; unlabeled faces are drawn as small gray dots
- Hover over a dot to preview the face thumbnail and the person's name
- Click a dot to open that photo in the lightbox
- Filter by person — Click a name badge above the plot to highlight that person's faces and dim everyone else's. The badges list the people with the most detected faces, plus All to clear the filter and Unknown for faces not yet assigned to anyone (shown only when you have unlabeled faces). Click the active badge again to deselect.
- Summary — The cards below the plot show how many people were identified and the total number of faces in the plot.
- Useful for spotting clustering errors or finding unlabeled faces