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# About the Malvertising Overview

The **Malvertising Overview** page gives you a high-level summary of inventory health for your platform over a selected period. Compare how much traffic and how many creatives were observed, clean, or malicious, then use the trend graph to spot changes over time. Adjust the **Date range** at the top of the page to refresh the metrics and graphs below.

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> Reference steps 8-11 for a walkthrough of the Malvertising Overview.

## Dashboard metrics

The overview highlights these key indicators:

* **Observed Impressions:** The total number of impressions analyzed.
* **Clean Impressions:** The number of impressions free of malicious activity.
* **Malicious Impressions:** The number of impressions flagged for threats.
* **Observed Creatives:** The total number of unique creatives analyzed.
* **Clean Creatives:** The number of unique creatives determined to be safe.
* **Malicious Creatives:** The number of unique creatives flagged as threats.

## Trend graphs

Below the high-level metrics, a line graph shows impressions and creatives together over your selected date range.

![Malvertising Overview trend graph for impressions and creatives](/_fern-img/ec93fcf6c227524370bc4f09999da6aded029e5328e08d9ac1f9d0cbd83688c8.webp)

Use the tabs at the top of the graph to switch views:

* Click **Observed** to view **Observed Impressions** and **Observed Creatives**.
* Click **Clean** to view **Clean Impressions** and **Clean Creatives**.
* Click **Threat** to view **Malicious Impressions** and **Malicious Creatives**.

Click a series in the legend to show or hide it if you want to examine a specific category more closely.

For deeper breakdowns by **Threat Class**, **Threat Type**, **DSP**, **Device Type**, and related attributes, see [Threat Intelligence](/advertising/about-the-threat-intelligence-dashboard).