Use realtime web analytics
Verify incoming pageviews and events, inspect active sessions, and use realtime reports without treating a short window as a trend.
Quick answer
Use Realtime to verify installation and inspect current activity. Use longer date ranges for performance decisions because a five-minute window is volatile.
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What you’ll learn
- Verify a tracker installation
- Read active visitor and event data
- Inspect a live session
- Know when not to use realtime
Realtime shows recent visitors, live sessions, and incoming events.
It is best for verifying collection and observing a launch as it happens. It is not a substitute for a stable date-range report.
Verify installation
After installing the tracker:
- Open a tracked page.
- Navigate to another tracked route.
- Open Realtime for the same project.
- Confirm the pageview and session appear.
- Trigger a custom event if your implementation sends one.
If the visit does not appear, check the browser network request, project install key, allowed hostnames, and blocked paths.
Read the snapshot
The Realtime report includes:
- Active visitors in the recent window.
- Pageviews and events.
- Top pages and sources.
- Live visitor or session rows.
- Recent event details.
- Approximate country-level map context when available.
Select a session or event to inspect the recorded context. Do not treat it as verified personal identity.
Use longer reports for decisions
A realtime window is small and volatile. One campaign click or internal test can change its rankings.
Use Overview, Acquisition, Pages, and Campaigns for period comparisons. Use Realtime to answer “is data arriving?” and “what is happening now?”
Next steps
Read Install AttribIQ for setup or return to the overview dashboard for period reporting.
Frequently asked questions
- How often does the realtime report refresh?
- The current dashboard refreshes its live snapshot every 15 seconds and also provides a manual refresh action.
- Why is my test visit missing?
- Check the project, hostname allowlist, blocked paths, script loading, browser requests, and whether bot or internal-traffic rules exclude the visit.
Continue learning
Understand the AttribIQ overview dashboard
Read visitors, pageviews, sessions, engagement, acquisition, content, audience, and optional revenue from the AttribIQ overview.
Read guide Web AnalyticsVisitors, pageviews, and sessions
Understand what visitors, pageviews, and sessions count in AttribIQ and why the three metrics answer different questions.
Read guide Web AnalyticsUnderstand traffic sources and referrers
Read sources, referrers, campaigns, and direct traffic without assigning more certainty than the browser supplied.
Read guide Web AnalyticsMeasure content and landing-page performance
Use page and landing-page reports to understand what people read, where journeys begin, and which pages contribute to conversion.
Read guidePut it into practice
Get to know your website’s visitors
Explore visitors, pages, sources, goals and funnels in the demo. You can start with web analytics and connect payments when you need them.