# Right now, who is on the site.

> The Dashboard counts the visitors on your site in the last five minutes, and counts again every half minute. Then read today by the hour.

Beside the Dashboard's title is one line: the visitors on your site now. **It counts everyone seen in the last five minutes**, and asks again every half minute while the screen is open.

## By hand, in the admin

1. Open **Dashboard**. The line beside the title says how many visitors are on the site now.
2. Leave the screen open. The count changes every half minute, with no reload.
3. Choose **Today**. The chart is drawn by the hour, and each figure shows its change from yesterday at the same hour.
4. Open **Web traffic** with Today chosen: **Pages** shows what was read today, and **Sources** where the readers came from.

The count is a number, never a name: PixelGlass keeps no cookie and no address. Staff signed in on the site are not counted.

## With your agent


No tool reads the Dashboard or the live count, so an agent cannot see who is on the site. Watch the count here, and ask your agent for the post or the edit the moment calls for.

## Examples

- **A launch, watched.** A product newsletter sends its launch issue and keeps the Dashboard open. **The count climbs in the first ten minutes**, and Sources shows the newsletter first.
- **A post that went round.** A local news site sees the count jump on a quiet afternoon, chooses Today, and finds one post at the top of Pages, shared in a neighbourhood chat.

## Questions

### Can I see how many people are on my PixelGlass site right now?

Yes. The Dashboard shows the visitors on the site now beside its title: everyone seen in the last five minutes, counted again every half minute while the screen is open.

### Does PixelGlass show who the live visitors are?

No. The live count is a number. PixelGlass analytics keep no cookie and no IP address, so a visitor is never a name.

### Can I see today's traffic by the hour?

Yes. Choose Today on the PixelGlass Dashboard, and the chart is drawn by the hour, and each figure shows its change from yesterday at the same hour.

### Do my own visits count as live?

No. Staff signed in on the site's address count nothing on PixelGlass.

## See also

- [Read your traffic](https://pixelglass.co/guides/read-your-traffic): The Dashboard shows visitors, views, sources, countries and devices, with no cookie and no banner. What each figure means, and how to filter it.
- [Track campaign links](https://pixelglass.co/guides/track-campaign-links): Tag a link to your site with utm_source, utm_campaign or ref, and see the visitors it brought on the Dashboard. Newsletter clicks are tagged for you.
- [See who opened your newsletter](https://pixelglass.co/guides/see-who-opened-your-newsletter): Every send has a campaign page: emailed, delivered, opened and clicked, the clicks on each link, and every recipient with what their copy did.
- [Analytics](https://pixelglass.co/features/analytics): Visitors, sources, countries and email in one dashboard, without cookies or a banner. A world map of your readers, and your members on it.
- [Every guide](https://pixelglass.co/guides)
- [Pricing](https://pixelglass.co/pricing): every feature on every plan, 14 days free
- [Create your site](https://pixelglass.co/signup)