Real-time: How to Monitor Live Visitors in statpx

Sometimes you need to know what's happening on your site right now, not what happened yesterday. The Real-time page (realtime.php) shows exactly that: active visitors on your site this moment, which pages they're on, where they came from, and a live activity feed covering the last five minutes.

Opening the Real-time Page

Click Real-time in the sidebar. At the top you'll see a green LIVE badge and a set of stat cards: Active Visitors (distinct sessions active in the last 5 minutes), Pageviews (last 5 minutes), and a couple of supporting metrics including average scroll depth over the same window. The page auto-refreshes on an interval you control, so you don't have to manually reload to see new activity appear.

Reading the Live Breakdowns

• Active Pages — which URLs currently have visitors on them, updated every refresh. This is the fastest way to see if a specific page (a new post, a launch page) is getting attention the moment it goes live.
• Top Countries (last 5 min) — where your current visitors are located, useful right after publishing something and sharing it in a specific region or channel.
• Top Referrers (last 5 min) — what's sending traffic right now. If you just posted a link somewhere, this confirms whether clicks are actually arriving and from where.
• Live Feed — a rolling list of the most recent individual hits in the last five minutes, similar in spirit to the Visitors log but scoped to right now instead of a historical range.

Controlling Auto-Refresh

Use the refresh interval selector near the bottom of the page to choose how often the data updates, and the Pause button to freeze the view — handy if you want to read the current numbers without them shifting mid-glance, or if you're taking a screenshot. Resume anytime to pick up where auto-refresh left off.

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Reading a low active-visitor count as a problem. Real-time only reflects the last five minutes — a quiet moment doesn't mean your day-level traffic is down; check Stats for that.
• Refreshing too aggressively. A very short refresh interval on a low-traffic site won't show anything new between refreshes — a longer interval (or manual refresh) is often just as useful with less flicker.
• Confusing a traffic spike with a bot burst. If active visitors jump suddenly with identical referrers and no scroll activity, check the Visitors log with the bot filter before assuming a real surge — see traffic spike alerts for setting up automated notification instead of watching manually.

The Bottom Line

Real-time is built for the moments when "right now" matters more than "this month" — launches, campaigns, and quick sanity checks that your tracking is actually working. It's not a replacement for the trend analysis you'd do on the main Stats page, but as an instant confirmation tool it's the fastest page in statpx. If you'd rather be notified automatically instead of watching the page, pair it with traffic spike alerts.