Real Time
The Real-time report shows you exactly what is happening on your website at this moment. There is no sampling, no delay, and no aggregation lag — what you see reflects your current traffic as it arrives.
The live visitor count
At the top of the Real-time report you will find a green pulsing dot next to a number. That number is the count of active visitors on your site right now. "Active" is defined as any visitor whose session has had activity within the last 30 minutes. The green dot is a visual signal that the count is live and continuously updating — there is no need to refresh the page.
The counter updates in under one second as new pageviews arrive, giving you an effectively real-time view of your audience.
What you can see
The Real-time report surfaces four dimensions of live traffic:
Current pages being viewed A ranked list of the pages receiving visits right now, ordered by active visitor count. This tells you not just that people are on your site, but exactly where they are. A blog post going viral will appear at the top of this list within seconds of traffic arriving.
Active countries The countries your current visitors are browsing from, determined by IP geolocation at the moment of the request. The IP address itself is discarded immediately after the lookup — only the country code is stored.
Active devices A breakdown of whether current visitors are on desktop, mobile, or tablet, derived from User-Agent parsing on the tracker request.
Active referrers
Where your current visitors came from immediately before landing on your site. This shows the referring domain or channel — for example, twitter.com, google.com, or Direct.
Use cases
Launch day monitoring When you publish a new product, blog post, or feature announcement, the Real-time report tells you whether traffic is actually arriving. You can watch visitor counts climb in real time as your launch email goes out or a social post gains traction.
Ad campaign monitoring If you are running a paid campaign, the Real-time report is the fastest feedback loop available. The moment your ad starts spending, you will see visitors appear. If a campaign is supposed to be running but the live count stays flat, you know to check your ad platform immediately — before wasting budget.
Incident detection A sudden drop in the live count can signal a site outage, a broken tracking snippet, or a traffic source going down. Watching Real-time alongside your monitoring tools helps you correlate technical problems with audience impact.
Content virality If a specific page suddenly dominates the "current pages" list, something has driven traffic there — a social share, a link from a popular site, or a newsletter mention. The referrer list will usually tell you the source.
How "active" is defined
A visitor is counted as active in Real-time if their session has had any recorded activity — a pageview, a goal event, or a custom event — within the past 30 minutes. This 30-minute window is the same window used throughout Statalog to define a session boundary. Once 30 minutes of inactivity passes, the session is considered closed and that visitor is no longer counted in the live total.
This means the Real-time count reflects genuine current engagement, not stale sessions from hours ago.
Privacy
Real-time data is collected using the same cookieless, fingerprint-free method as all other Statalog reports. No personal identifiers are stored. The live visitor count is derived from anonymous session activity only.
FAQ
How is a live visitor defined? A visitor is considered live if their session has been active — meaning at least one pageview or event has been recorded — within the last 30 minutes. When the 30-minute window expires with no new activity, the session closes and the visitor is removed from the live count. This matches the session definition used across all Statalog reports, so numbers stay consistent whether you are looking at Real-time or historical data.
Does Real-time data appear in my other reports? Yes. Real-time pageviews and events are written to the same ClickHouse tables that power all other reports. Data from the last few minutes may take a short time to appear in aggregated reports, but it is never lost.
Can I see individual visitor activity? No. Statalog is designed to be privacy-first — there are no individual visitor profiles, no session replays, and no personal data stored. The Real-time report shows aggregate counts and dimensions, not individual user journeys.