# Live: who is on your site now

> Live shows on a world map how many visitors are on your site now, and from which countries. It is for a screen in your office.

> **In short**
>
> - From 4 November 2026, **Live** shows how many visitors were active on your site in the last 3 minutes, and from which countries.
> - Only signed-in members of the project can open it. There is no public link, and an access token or an agent cannot read it.
> - Live is on for each project. An owner or an admin can turn it off.

## Open Live

1. In the rail, click **Live**, or press G, then L. Or click the **Live** card on **Workbench**. Live shows the project that is open.
2. For a screen in your office, click **TV mode**. It shows the map without the rail, at `/live/tv`. A bookmark of `/live/tv?project=<project id>` opens that project, not the project that the browser had open. **Full screen**, or the full screen of the browser (F11), fills the screen. **Exit TV mode** goes back to Live. Esc leaves full screen only.

The page shows:

- **On the site now**: the number of visitors on the site now, and how many of them are new in the last minute, for example "3 new in the last minute";
- "Active in the last 3 min";
- a world map with a bubble for each country, and the 6 countries with the most visitors. Each country in the list is a link to **Sessions** from that country in the last 2 days: today and yesterday, as whole UTC days, not the last 3 minutes;
- "No one on the site right now" when no visitor was active.

## TV mode

TV mode is for a screen that stays on, for example in your office.

- It shows the name Sequential, the Live mark with the project, and a clock.
- It keeps the screen on while the page shows, where the browser allows it.
- It loads itself again once a day. Every 10 minutes it moves the picture by 2 pixels, so that the screen does not burn in.
- The TV stays signed in like any browser. Its own daily load is not activity of a person, so the sign-in still ends after the usual time without activity. Then the page says "Your session ended. Sign in again".

## What Live counts

- A visitor is active when the Sequential SDK sent an event from their browser in the last 3 minutes. Live counts each visitor once, also with two tabs open.
- A visitor is new when their session started less than 1 minute ago.
- Live counts only events that Sequential accepted from the Sequential browser SDK. It does not count events from PostHog, Mixpanel, your server or a mobile app. It does not count requests that Sequential refused, for example from bots. A replay upload does not add a visitor.
- A visitor with no known country counts in the total, but not in a country.
- Live counts up to 5,000 visitors in a project. Then the number shows as "5,000+".
- When Sequential has too much work, the page can show **Paused** and keep the last picture.

## Who can open it

- Owners, admins, members and viewers of the project.
- For a project that you cannot open, the page says "You cannot open Live in this project."

## Turn Live off

Live is on for each project. To turn it off, go to **Settings** › **Project** and clear **Live map**. Only owners and admins can change it. While it is off, Sequential records nothing new for Live in the project. The data that it already holds expires in at most 5 minutes. The page says "Live is off for this project." An owner or an admin then sees **Turn it on**.

## What Live keeps

- For each active visitor, Sequential keeps a short keyed hash of the visitor id, the country code and when the session started. It keeps them in memory for at most 5 minutes.
- The page gets only the counts and the country codes: no ids, no page addresses and no names.