Realtime

The Realtime view shows what is happening on your sites in the last 30 minutes: who is on, which pages they are viewing, where they came from, and the individual events as they land. It reads events directly, so it works as soon as your snippet is installed, with no rollup to wait for.

The header carries a pulsing green dot and the label Updates every 10s, and the page reloads its data on that cadence. Everything on the page is scoped to the last 30 minutes and aggregated across every site on your workspace.

The four live metrics

A four-tile strip across the top counts activity in the 30-minute window. Numbers use compact formatting (for example, 1.2k):

• Live visitors - the number of distinct visitors seen in the last 30 minutes, counted by unique visitor ID.
• Pageviews (30 min) - the count of pageview events in the window.
• Sessions (30 min) - the number of distinct sessions, counted by unique session ID.
• Events (30 min) - every event of any type recorded in the window, not just pageviews.

Active pages and referrers

Below the metrics, two bar lists sit side by side. Top active pages right now ranks the most-viewed page paths in the last 30 minutes by their pageview count, shown under a Views label. When there are no pageviews in the window, the list reads "No pageviews in the last 30 minutes."

Top referrers right now ranks the referrer hosts that sent visitors, by visit count, under a Visits label. Each entry is the hostname pulled from the referrer URL. With no referrers in the window, the list reads "No external referrers in the last 30 minutes." Each list shows up to 20 rows.

The recent events feed

The Recent events table at the bottom lists the most recent events newest-first, up to 50 of them. It has four columns:

• Time - relative to now. Events under five seconds old read "Just now"; events under a minute show as 30s ago; older events show as 2m ago.
• Type - the event type as a coloured pill. form_submit and identify show in green; every other type, including pageview, is neutral.
• Page - the page path the event fired on, or a dash when the event carries no path.
• Visitor - the first eight characters of the visitor's ID, shown in monospace as a short fingerprint rather than the full identifier.

If no events landed in the window, the table area reads "No events in the last 30 minutes."

When there is no activity

If nothing has been recorded in the last 30 minutes, the whole page collapses to a single empty state titled "No live activity right now" with the note "Events will appear here within seconds of being received." The tile strip, bar lists, and feed only render once at least one event exists in the window. A quiet Realtime view is expected outside of active traffic; it is not a sign the snippet is broken.

Realtime vs the main dashboard

Realtime is fixed to the last 30 minutes and refreshes every 10 seconds, so it always reflects what is happening right now. Overview covers a date range you choose and is built for trends over time. Use Realtime to confirm a campaign or page is live and drawing traffic; use Overview for everything historical.