Live: what is happening right now

The Live tab of a site shows what is happening on it right now. The numbers keep themselves up to date every few seconds: leave the page open while your newsletter goes out or your ad starts, and watch the wave arrive.

What it shows

• Visitors right now: the visitors seen on your site over the last five minutes.
• The last 30 minutes, minute by minute: one bar per minute. This is where a wave shows.
• Where they come from and What they are looking at: the sources, your campaigns and the pages of the last 30 minutes.
• Today, so far: visits, pageviews, the visits that reached each of your goals, and your revenue.

The same count, visitors right now, appears on your statistics page and on the page that lists all your sites.

Following sales during a launch

A goal is counted the moment it happens: mark your purchase or your sign-up as a goal and you see it move live. Amounts come from Stripe, which Bearing reads again about once a minute while your Live page is open: they can be a minute behind.

Today is not over. Do not compare its numbers with a whole day before the evening.

Show it on a screen, or share it

At the bottom of the Live tab, Show it on a screen, or share it makes a link to this page that works without an account: for a screen in your shop or at an event, or to share during a launch.

• Whoever has the link sees the screen. So you choose what it shows: the visitors right now are always there; the last 30 minutes, today's visits, your goals, your revenue, the sources, the pages and your campaigns are yours to tick. Revenue and page addresses are off unless you switch them on.
• An end date if you like: one day, one week, one month, or none. After it, the link shows nothing.
• Remove it whenever you want: the screens that use it stop at once. The list tells you when each link was last opened.
• The address is shown once. Bearing keeps no copy of it: copy it when you make the link. If you lose it, remove the link and make another.

A screenshot of a browser shows its address bar, and with it the link. On a screen, go full screen; if a link travels further than you meant, remove it.

What Live never shows

Counts and rankings only, never one visit on its own. On a screen in a shop where three people are on your site, “someone just arrived on the pricing page” would point at somebody. For the same reason, on a shared link, a source, a campaign or a page only shows once it has three visits. Nobody is followed here either: see Privacy.

Your AI can read the same numbers: “How many people are on my site right now, and where do they come from?”