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The real-time visitor listing keeps complete current-page values in the document and confines long, unbroken URLs to the available column width. Hover or focus a current-page label to access its complete value.

BimBeau Privacy Analytics Real-time report showing current website activity

Real-time report showing recent and currently active website activity.

The Real-time report helps you monitor recent and currently active activity on your WordPress website.

Use this report to confirm that BimBeau Privacy Analytics is recording traffic, observe activity after publishing or promoting content, and follow short-term visitor movement.

Good to know

Real-time reporting is available in BimBeau Privacy Analytics Free and BimBeau Privacy Analytics Pro.

Open the Real-time report

In your WordPress admin area, go to BimBeau Privacy Analytics → Real-time.

Depending on your dashboard layout, you may also see real-time shortcuts or summaries from the main Dashboard.

What this report helps you understand

Use Real-time to answer questions such as:

  • Is BimBeau Privacy Analytics recording visits right now?
  • Are visitors active after a publication, campaign, or email send?
  • Which pages are currently attracting attention?
  • Where are recent visitors coming from?
  • Are there active visitors from specific countries or cities?
  • Is recent traffic human, bot-like, or mixed?

How real-time data works

Real-time data focuses on recent activity rather than long-term trends.

It is useful for immediate monitoring, but it should be interpreted differently from historical reports such as Pages, Referring sites, or Devices.

Real-time helps you see what is happening now or very recently. It is best for quick checks, launches, and short-term monitoring.

Historical reports help you analyze traffic over a selected date range. They are better for trends, decisions, reporting, and comparison.

Common real-time sections

The exact layout may evolve, but real-time reporting can include information such as:

Section What it means
Active or recent visits A snapshot of recent visitor activity. The visitor counter follows the same active realtime window as the displayed recent-visit rows.
Active pages Pages that have received recent activity
Locations A country choropleth in Free; precise markers and city details in Pro when enriched data is permitted and available
Devices Device categories associated with recent activity
Referring sites Recent traffic sources, when available

The map adapts to the edition and the location data available:

  • Free displays a country choropleth. Countries are shaded according to recent visitor activity, without precise geographic markers.
  • Pro displays precise markers when the real-time snapshot contains valid enriched coordinates. If coordinates are missing, invalid, or unavailable under essential-only collection, the map automatically falls back to the country choropleth.

The map remains visible with a neutral country view when no visitors are active or location data is still being refreshed. The Real-time panel does not present an empty-map prompt to change geolocation settings.

The visitor table follows the same privacy boundary. Free does not display the City column, while the country remains available when it can be determined. Pro can display the City column when the collection context permits city data. A Pro map therefore does not always contain markers.

When to use Real-time

Real-time is especially useful when you want to:

  • verify tracking after installation;
  • test a public page visit;
  • monitor traffic after publishing a new article;
  • observe activity during a campaign launch;
  • check whether a newsletter or social post is sending visitors;
  • detect sudden short-term traffic spikes.

Testing BimBeau Privacy Analytics with Real-time

Use this simple workflow after installing or configuring BimBeau Privacy Analytics.

  1. Open a public page

    Visit a public frontend page of your website in a browser.

  2. Return to WordPress admin

    Open BimBeau Privacy Analytics → Real-time.

  3. Refresh the report

    Wait briefly, then refresh or watch the real-time panel update.

  4. Compare with your settings

    If no activity appears, review your tracking settings, role exclusions, and consent configuration.

Low-traffic websites

On low-traffic websites, Real-time may often look empty. This does not always mean tracking is broken.

Real-time depends on recent activity. If no one has visited the site recently, there may be nothing to display.

Good to know

For low-traffic websites, generate a controlled test visit from a public page before using Real-time to verify installation.

Real-time follows the same privacy and tracking behavior configured for BimBeau Privacy Analytics.

Essential activity can provide basic aggregate visibility. Advanced or enriched details may depend on your settings and consent workflow.

Important

BimBeau Privacy Analytics is not a consent management platform. If consent is required for advanced analytics on your website, make sure your CMP controls the relevant tracking behavior.

Free and Pro behavior

BimBeau Privacy Analytics Free includes the Real-time report. Its map is a country choropleth: countries are shaded according to recent activity, and no precise geographic markers appear. The visitor table omits the City column but retains the country when it can be determined.

BimBeau Privacy Analytics Pro displays precise map markers only when valid enriched coordinates are available. Its visitor table can include the City column when the collection context permits that data. Missing or invalid coordinates—and essential-only collection that does not provide them—make the map fall back automatically to the country choropleth.

Empty or unexpected results

If the Real-time report is empty or does not show the activity you expect, check the following:

  1. Confirm recent traffic

    Real-time only shows recent activity. If your site has no recent visitors, the report may be empty.

  2. Visit a public frontend page

    Open a normal public page, not a WordPress admin screen or technical endpoint.

  3. Check role exclusions

    If your WordPress role is excluded from tracking, your own test visit may not appear.

  4. Review consent behavior

    If advanced tracking is blocked by your CMP, enriched real-time details may be unavailable.

  5. Compare with historical reports

    Open the Dashboard or Pages report to confirm whether BimBeau Privacy Analytics is recording traffic generally.

Next step

Continue with Visitors to understand visitor-level reporting and available detail levels.