# Learn: live visitor guides Guides to seeing who is on your website right now, grouped by topic. ## What it is and why - [Live Cursor Tracking for Your Own Website](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/live-cursor-tracking-website.md): 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. - [Live View vs Session Replay: What You Actually Need](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/live-view-vs-session-replay.md): 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: What It Is and When It Helps](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/live-visitor-tracking.md): 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. - [See Who Is on Your Website Right Now (Free)](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/see-who-is-on-your-website-right-now.md): 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. ## How to - [Get Notified the Moment a Visitor Arrives](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/get-notified-when-someone-visits.md): 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. - [Real-Time Website Visitors: Free Options Compared](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/real-time-website-visitors-free.md): 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 Where Each Visitor Came From, Live](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/see-where-visitors-come-from-live.md): See whether each current visitor came from Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, another site or direct, as they browse your page. - [See Which Visitors Come From ChatGPT or Perplexity](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/track-chatgpt-visitors-live.md): 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. - [Watching Phone Visitors Live: The Scroll Band](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/watch-mobile-visitors-live.md): 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. ## Comparisons - [Best Live Visitor Tools in 2026 (Honest List)](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/best-live-visitor-tools.md): 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. - [Clarity Live Users vs whoisbrowsing](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/microsoft-clarity-live-vs-whoisbrowsing.md): Microsoft Clarity is free and shows live users and live recordings. whoisbrowsing is free too. The real differences: cookies, recordings and setup. - [GA4 Realtime vs a True Live Visitor View](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/ga4-realtime-vs-live-visitor-view.md): 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 Live View? What to Use Instead](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/hotjar-live-view-alternative.md): 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 Alternative Without Keystroke Capture](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/inspectlet-live-alternative.md): Inspectlet Live streams visitors' cursor, scroll and typing. whoisbrowsing shows cursors and clicks live, but never keystrokes, form values or page text. - [Lucky Orange Alternative: Free, Live, No Recordings](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/lucky-orange-alternative.md): 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 or Fathom vs a Live View: Not Either/Or](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/plausible-fathom-vs-live-view.md): 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 Is Shutting Down: Where to Go](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/smartlook-alternatives-2026.md): 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. ## Use cases - [Live Visitors for Agencies and Client Sites](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/agencies-live-visitors.md): 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. - [Live Visitors for E-commerce Stores](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/ecommerce-live-visitors.md): 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 SaaS Signups Land and Get Stuck](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/saas-onboarding-live.md): 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 Your Launch Day Traffic Live](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/launch-day-live-visitors.md): 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. - [Who Is Reading Your Pricing Page Right Now](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/pricing-page-live-visitors.md): 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. ## Privacy - [Global Privacy Control and Live Visitor Tools](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/global-privacy-control-explained.md): What Global Privacy Control (GPC) is, how a site can read it, and why whoisbrowsing never shows visitors whose browsers send it. - [Is Live Visitor Tracking GDPR-Safe?](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/live-visitor-tracking-gdpr.md): What whoisbrowsing collects, what it never shows, and why EU/EEA, UK and Swiss visitors and GPC browsers are excluded. Not legal advice. - [Real-Time Analytics Without Cookies](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/real-time-analytics-without-cookies.md): Cookieless is not the same as consent-free. What real-time analytics without cookies means, what it does not, and how whoisbrowsing handles it. ## Concepts - [How "Near Austin, TX" Works (And Why It's Approximate)](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/approximate-city-from-ip.md): 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. - [Referrers, Direct Traffic and AI Assistants](https://whoisbrowsing.com/learn/referrer-vs-ai-referrer.md): Why visits from ChatGPT and other AI assistants often show up as direct traffic, and how whoisbrowsing labels each live visitor's source.