Real-time visitors and wallboard
See real-time visitors, a live activity stream and top pages from the last 30 minutes, and put a full-screen wallboard on an office TV with a secret link.
Live#
The Live page refreshes itself every 5 seconds while its tab is visible.
- Visitors right now: distinct visits seen in the last 5 minutes, with a bar per minute for the last 30 minutes.
- Activity stream: the latest pageviews and events (up to 50), with the relative time, event name, page, channel, country, device and browser. Hidden events are left out.
- Right now (last 30 minutes): the top 8 pages, referrers, countries and events. A page opens its page detail for today.
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Pause / Resume | Stops and restarts the refresh |
| Filter | Narrows the whole page with the same filters as the dashboard: the visitor count, the bars, the stream and the top lists then cover only matching hits. The filter stays while the page refreshes |
| All / Pageviews / Events | What the activity stream shows |
| Wallboard | Opens the wallboard for this site |
| TV links | Manages wallboard links. Needs sites.manage |
| JSON | The same data from the API (live_get, with feed, filters and limit up to 100) |
What you'll never see here, by design: IP addresses, cities, names, or any trail of what one visitor did.
Wallboard#
/sites/<site id>/live/wallboard shows big numbers full screen, for an
office TV:
- visitors right now with the 30-minute bars, today's visitors, pageviews and bounce rate, and the top 5 pages, countries and referrers right now,
- refreshed every 10 seconds,
- always dark, and the whole board shifts a few pixels each minute so nothing burns into the screen.
| URL parameter | What it does |
|---|---|
site_ids |
The sites to rotate through (site_ids[]=pa_…, up to 12). Without it the wallboard shows the site in the URL |
rotate_seconds |
Seconds per site, 5 to 300 (default 20) |
Wallboard links#
A TV shouldn't be signed in to your account. Create a wallboard link
(Live → TV links): a secret URL (/wallboard/<token>) that shows the
wallboard without signing in. It is read-only and shows only live numbers
and today's totals. Creating and revoking links needs sites.manage.
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | Optional label for the list, such as "Office TV" |
| Sites to rotate through | The sites the link shows. The site you created it from is always included, up to 12 in total |
| Seconds per site | How long each site stays on screen, 5 to 300 (default 20) |
| Expires (optional) | The link stops working at the end of that day, in the site's timezone |
Revoke turns a link off for good. The API operations are
wallboard_links_list, wallboard_links_create and
wallboard_links_delete.