Dashboard
How the live feed differs from the five-minute visitor pulse.
Realtime tab
Realtime is a scrolling feed of events as the collector accepts them. The browser opens one Server-Sent Events connection. Each chunk is a pageview or custom event with its path, country, and city. Nothing on that screen polls for the next row, and the payload never includes the raw IP.
Live visitors pulse
The Live visitors count in the dashboard header is a different signal. It is how many sessions were seen in the last five minutes, refreshed on a short interval. Use it for “who is here right now.” Use Realtime when you want each pageview and custom event as it lands, including where it came from.