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See each visitor's cursor, trail and clicks drawn live on your real page. Phones show as a scroll band. Free, under 4 KB, nothing stored.

Session replay records visits to watch later; a live view shows visitors now and keeps nothing. Here is when watching beats recording, and when not.

Live visitor tracking shows who is on your site at this moment. Learn how it differs from analytics and session replay, and when each one is worth using.

Add one script tag (under 4 KB) and watch every current visitor's cursor, page, city and source live on your real site. Free, no cookies, nothing stored.

Turn on browser notifications in the whoisbrowsing dashboard and get an alert naming the landing page whenever a new visitor arrives. Free, no email setup.

An honest table of free ways to see real-time website visitors: GA4, Microsoft Clarity, Crazy Egg, Plausible (no free plan) and whoisbrowsing, sourced.

See whether each current visitor came from Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, another site or direct, as they browse your page.

GA4 buries AI assistant traffic in Referral or Unassigned. Here is how to see ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini visitors live, per person, on your site.

Phones have no cursor, so whoisbrowsing shows mobile visitors as a see-through band over the part of the page they are looking at. Here is how to read it.

Nine tools that show who is on your website right now, compared from their own docs: what live means in each, the free option, and what they keep.

Microsoft Clarity is free and shows live users and live recordings. whoisbrowsing is free too. The real differences: cookies, recordings and setup.

GA4 Realtime counts active users over the last 5 and 30 minutes. A live visitor view shows each person on your page right now. When to use which.

Hotjar is now Contentsquare, which lists live browsing on paid plans. Free ways to see who is on your site right now, compared with sources.

Inspectlet Live streams visitors' cursor, scroll and typing. whoisbrowsing shows cursors and clicks live, but never keystrokes, form values or page text.

Used Lucky Orange mainly for Live View? whoisbrowsing shows every current visitor live on your real page, free, with no cookies and nothing stored.

Plausible and Fathom keep cookieless traffic history and show a realtime count. A live view shows each visitor on your page now. Why you might run both.

Smartlook stopped new sales on 31 May 2026 and says it switches off on 30 Sep 2027. The dates, what to export, and alternatives for recordings or live.

Show a client who is on their website right now. One script tag per site, a separate live view for each, free and with nothing stored.

See who is on your product pages right now: live cursors, source, city and device, with no checkout capture. Free, under 4 KB, no cookies.

Watch users land on your marketing pages and sign-up flow live: where they came from, where the cursor goes and where they pause. Nothing is stored.

Watch launch day traffic as it happens: see each visitor's cursor, source and city on your real page, with an alert when someone new lands.

See who is on your pricing page right now: live count, source, city, device and time on site, with each visitor's cursor drawn on the page.

What Global Privacy Control (GPC) is, how a site can read it, and why whoisbrowsing never shows visitors whose browsers send it.

What whoisbrowsing collects, what it never shows, and why EU/EEA, UK and Swiss visitors and GPC browsers are excluded. Not legal advice.

Cookieless is not the same as consent-free. What real-time analytics without cookies means, what it does not, and how whoisbrowsing handles it.

How an approximate city is worked out for a website visitor, why it can be wrong, and what whoisbrowsing shows: a nearby city, never an identity.

Why visits from ChatGPT and other AI assistants often show up as direct traffic, and how whoisbrowsing labels each live visitor's source.