Realtime

The window

Realtime sits in the rail's Acquisition group, beside Overview. Its header reads Paid clicks as they land — the live edge of this site's traffic.

The screen reads two spans:

• The day — the last 24 hours: the four figures at the top, the map, Cities, How they connected and Arrivals by hour. Each panel says Last 24 hours (Last 24 hours, ending now on Arrivals by hour).
• The edge — the last fifteen minutes and every arrival since the page opened: the Arrivals panel, a ring on the map for each new landing, and the Arrivals, Last arrival and How they connected counts, which keep climbing while the tab is open.

The other day panels — Cities, Campaigns, the map's marks and footer, Arrivals by hour — show the day as it was when the page opened. Reload to bring them forward.

The window is 24 hours on every plan and there is no period control. Screens that read a period you choose: Time periods.

An arrival is a session that landed on the site from a paid click, one row per session. A session that resolves to no network never appears here. A change to how your tags are read (see Tag your ad links) applies here from the next page load.

The strip

Four figures across the top:

Last arrival carries observed under its stamp, and reads None when the last 24 hours hold no arrival — it never shows an older age.

Where they landed

The map. Its header reads Last 24 hours · city centroids, clustered.

• A mark is a group of nearby cities, placed at city centroids. The bigger the mark, the more arrivals; a single arrival stays visible. Hovering shows the city, how many places it groups (Lille +3 nearby), the country and the count; a large mark writes its count inside.
• The frame follows where most arrivals are, so one far-away arrival does not zoom the map out. Arrivals outside the frame are not drawn at the border; they are counted in the footer.
• A ring marks a new landing. When an arrival lands while the page is open, a ring expands and fades at its city. It is the map's only motion; nothing moves when nothing arrives.

The footer reads N arrivals · M cities · K clusters, for the day as it was when the page opened — so the strip's Arrivals can run ahead of it — and X from Y cities outside this view when the frame left some out.

A city is a centroid, never a precise point. An arrival with a country but no city counts in Arrivals, not in Cities; it is listed as Unknown city and is not plotted.

With no arrival in the window the panel reads No paid arrival in the last 24 hours: a city appears the moment a paid click lands from it.

Cities

The map's legend in words: the same places, ranked by arrivals. Each row shows the city, its country, a bar against the top city and the count; Unknown city when none resolved. Eight rows are shown; with more, the footer reads N cities in the window · 8 shown.

A city's name opens Connections filtered to every connection within 25 km of it, in that screen's own period. A city without coordinates stays plain text.

With no city the panel reads No city to place yet.

How they connected

One row per connection type seen in the window, by count: Home internet, Mobile, Company network, Government network, Cloud server, VPN, Privacy relay, Tor — whichever appeared — each with a bar and its count. It is shown on every plan.

The type describes the connection, never the traffic: rows carry no colour and are ordered by count; the reading is yours.

A cloud, VPN, relay or Tor connection resolves to its exit, so its mark on the map sits there rather than where the browser is. When any such arrival is in the window, the footer says so: N of M reached us through a masked connection — those marks sit at the exit, not at the visitor.

A type opens Connections filtered to it. With nothing in the window the panel reads No connection to read yet.

Arrivals by hour

One bar per hour over the last 24 hours, ending now, between 24h ago and now, with peak N/h for the tallest bar. An hour without arrivals is a zero bar.

With no arrival the panel reads No paid arrival in the last 24 hours and The hours are still counted — this is a reading of the window, not a gap in it.

Arrivals

The live edge: every paid arrival of the last fifteen minutes, newest first, plus every one since the page opened — up to 200 rows.

The header says what the page is doing, beside a small dot:

The columns

Each row ends on an arrow (Open arrival); clicking the row opens the session. The campaign, the type and a lock open their own link.

On Free, the provider is locked on every row (a lock reading Provider, opening billing) and the address shows its first two numbers (12.34.x.x), with a lock. Lists elsewhere keep the provider on their first three rows on Free; this one does not. Paid plans show both in full.

Rows

• What a row says at landing stays. Its time, campaign, city and network do not change.
• It fills in where it stands. A later page view, scroll, outbound click or conversion updates the row in place; the order never changes.
• A new row is tinted for a moment, then settles.
• Its counts are a minimum. The full story is on the session screen.
• Converted means the primary conversion; a secondary one reads Engaged, so a form start never reads as a purchase. See Conversions.

The footer reads N arrivals on screen, and adds M in the last frame when a single update held more than 50.

With no arrival in the last fifteen minutes: No paid arrival in the last fifteen minutes and This is the live edge, not the day. Arrivals appear here as they land; the window behind them is the monitor's.

The cadence by plan

The plan sets how often the page updates. It is a pace, not a delay: nothing is held back, and every plan gets the same rows.

Three states are not Live, and each says so:

• A hidden tab stops updating; back within fifteen minutes, it catches up on the last fifteen minutes; away longer, it comes back stopped, with Resume.
• An idle tab — visible, untouched for fifteen minutes — stops and reads Stopped after fifteen minutes without you., with Resume.
• Over the allowance — below.

The page never stops because nothing arrived.

Over the allowance

When this month's event allowance stops inside the last 24 hours, the screen goes still and says so instead of showing zeros:

• The strip keeps its labels under one card: This month's allowance stops inside the last 24 hours. Everything after it was collected and is kept — a paid plan reads it, and every other month with it. Its button names the cheapest plan that lifts it, with its monthly price.
• The map, Cities, How they connected and Arrivals by hour are not drawn.
• The Arrivals header reads Still — this month's allowance stops here. Everything since was collected and is kept, and opens billing; the table sits under This month's allowance stops before now.

Every arrival past the allowance is kept, and shows once the plan changes. Only Free stops at the allowance; paid plans are billed for what goes over — see Billing.

What this screen does not do

• No "active now" and no time on site. A row says when an arrival landed and what it did since, not whether it is still there.
• No period control. The window is the last 24 hours on every plan.
• No filter. The screen shows every paid arrival of the site.
• No verdict on a connection. A VPN, a cloud server, a relay or Tor is an attribute; rows carry no colour and are ordered by count.
• No ranking of providers, campaigns or landing pages. Those are on Connections, Campaigns and the Overview, over a period you choose.
• No precise point and no street map. A city is a centroid.
• Nothing moves on silence. The ring, the row tint and the dot each follow an arrival or a refresh.