---
title: "Live now"
description: "See who's on your links right now, where they are in a video, and what happened in the last 30 minutes. Countries and devices only, never who."
canonical_url: https://docs.markdrop.in/analytics/live
last_updated: 2026-10-30
prerequisites: [/analytics/overview]
site: "Markdrop Docs"
index: https://docs.markdrop.in/llms.txt
---

# Live now

Live view shows what's happening on your links at this moment: how many people are reading or watching, and where they are in it. It's handy right after you share something, or during a talk or a launch.

## Open it

Go to [markdrop.in/dashboard/live](https://markdrop.in/dashboard/live), or open [Analytics](https://markdrop.in/dashboard/analytics) and choose **Live**. When someone is on your links, the button shows the count instead, like **3 people live**.

On a single link's analytics page, a badge such as **2 reading now** or **1 watching now** shows who's on that link.

## What you see

The header says how many people are on how many links, like **5 people across 2 links**, or **Nobody right now**.

- **Each video or audio file** gets its own panel, with a dot on the timeline for each viewer and a line for each, like "2:14 · someone in the US, on a phone".
- **Reading now** lists documents, PDFs and other files with a count, and where most readers are: a heading, or a page number.
- **Last 30 minutes** is a short feed of recent events, such as someone opening a link, a link being previewed in Slack, how far someone read, or the page someone reached in a PDF.

The page updates every 10 seconds while the tab is open.

## How live is worked out

A visitor's page sends a small signal every 15 seconds while it's visible. Someone counts as live for 45 seconds after their last signal, so a reader who closes the tab drops off within a minute. Signals pause after 5 minutes without any activity, unless media is playing.

Live presence is kept in memory only and never saved.

## Privacy

- Only countries and device types are shown, never who someone is.
- Your own visits aren't shown.
- Views from your workspace's members aren't shown.

See [What gets counted](https://docs.markdrop.in/analytics/what-gets-counted) for the full list.