The Active Visitors metric shows you how many people are on your site right now. At a glance, you can quickly check if your site is busy or not.
The Active Pages widget shows you exactly which pages are being viewed and how many views each one has received over the past 5 minutes.
It’s helpful to monitor your live traffic after sending an email newsletter or major announcement on social media, but it can be even more useful to check your live stats during an unexpected spike.
If your site experiences a surge in traffic, you can uncover the source by checking all the widgets in the Real-time report. Find the countries, campaigns, and devices in addition to the top pages and referrers.
The Real-time report also includes two charts showing your site’s views over the past 5 minutes and 30 minutes. This gives you a broader view of your recent traffic and helps to put your active visitors count into perspective.
The Real-time Analytics report refreshes itself every ten seconds.
An Active Visitor is someone who viewed a page within the last five minutes.