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Real-Time Analytics

Real-time analytics shows what is happening on your site right now: who is on it, how many sessions are open, how many pages have been viewed in the last few minutes. Traditional reports lag by hours. Real-time closes that gap.

Real-time in Statable

The Statable dashboard has a Realtime view that surfaces a rolling 30-minute window with three core metrics:

  • Visitors: distinct visitors active in the last 30 minutes
  • Sessions: sessions started or still active in the last 30 minutes
  • Pageviews: pages loaded in the last 30 minutes

In Realtime, KPI card titles are suffixed with (Last 30m). Bounce Rate, Session Duration, Engagement Time, and Views Per Session are not shown. Those metrics need a full session window to be meaningful, and reappear on any other date range.

A small Current visitors badge in the top navigation always reflects the live count, even on longer date ranges. Click the badge to jump into Realtime.

Activate Realtime via the date range picker (R keyboard shortcut). The view auto-refreshes every few seconds.

Example: monitoring during an ad campaign

Email campaign launched at 2:00 PM:

  • 2:01 PM, first 50 visitors on site
  • 2:05 PM, 320 active users
  • 2:10 PM, peak of 580 simultaneous visits
  • 2:15 PM, pageviews still climbing while visitor count plateaus
  • 2:30 PM, activity decreases to 150 visitors

Practical use

Real-time monitoring helps with rapid decisions:

  • Launching campaigns: confirm the link works and traffic flows minutes after sending.
  • Publishing content: see whether a new article actually attracts readers.
  • Detecting technical issues: a sudden drop in pageviews paired with steady visitor counts often points to a broken page rather than a traffic problem.
  • Live demos: show a stakeholder traffic flowing without exposing historical numbers.

Detecting technical issues

A sharp drop in pageviews while the visitor count stays high may signal:

  • A page crashing after first paint (visitors land but trigger no further pageviews)
  • A broken JavaScript bundle preventing SPA navigation
  • A form submission flow that 500s after a click

Limitations

Realtime shows three live metrics, not the full dashboard. Reports that depend on session-level aggregation (Bounce Rate, Session Duration, Engagement Time, Views Per Session) only become available on a longer date range. Filters work in Realtime but only across the same three metrics.

For deeper analysis of a just-launched campaign, switch from Realtime to Today (T). Same data, computed for the full day, with all reports and metrics available.

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