Realtime analytics

Updated on 31 Jan 2025
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The realtime section of analytics is intended to provide quick visibility into the current listener activity on a stream or podcasts.

Realtime data is mainly intended for visibility purposes, and does not perform the same extensive filtering included in Historic analytics data views.

How many sessions are "currently" connected
A sample of live session activity
Details of most recently connected sessions
Breakdown of live sessions by region, application and ISP
New sessions over the past 3 hours

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Data & metrics

Realtime data is displayed from a sliding window of 24 hours. It is measured by a single metric, "Live sessions" which is defined as:

Streams

Any session that started less than 24 hours ago and either:

(a) has not ended yet or
(b) ended within the past 10 minutes.

Podcast

Any podcast access within the past hour.

Sessions detected as "Bot" traffic is also excluded form realtime results.

Live sessions are tracked regardless of duration, which means even 1 second long listens are be included in realtime data. For this reasons realtime data will never fully correspond to more accurate historic data.

Timeseries charts

Timeseries charts showing "Started" or "Ended" values indicates the number of sessions that either started or ended at each time interval.

Sampled data

Sampled data represents new sessions starting almost in realtime, but to ensure consistent behaviour for high volume content, this data takes is limited to 60 samples per minute - additional session starts are discarded.