# The live globe

> Visitors from the last 30 minutes as little critters on a night-sky globe, with speech bubbles, replay, sound and a shareable snapshot.

Section: Features  
Canonical page: https://statsy.co/docs/features/live-globe  
Last updated: 2026-09-15

**Live** shows everyone on your site in the last 30 minutes. It is a night-sky globe where each visitor is a small critter with a name, a speech bubble for what they just did, and a place on the map. It is also, unashamedly, the nicest thing to look at on launch day.

## Names and bubbles

Every visitor gets a colour-and-animal name — *lime otter*, *violet capybara* — derived from their id, so the same person keeps the same name while they are on the site and nobody has to read a hexadecimal string. Speech bubbles pop up as things happen: "visited /pricing".

Where several visitors are in the same place, they gather into a pile with a badge counting the rest, so a busy city stays readable.

## The controls

- **Replay the last 30 minutes** — plays the whole window back in about twenty seconds. The best way to see a traffic wave arrive.
- **Sound** — a small noise on each arrival. On launch day this is either delightful or unbearable; it remembers your choice.
- **Share a snapshot** — renders the current globe as a PNG at social-card proportions, with the headline number and the time, ready to post or save.
- **Full screen** — for the second monitor, or the office television.

## Putting it on the internet

Set the site's visibility to **Everyone** and switch on the **Live globe** option, and the globe gets a public page at `/p/<your domain>/live` with a copyable link. It can also be embedded in your own page like any shared dashboard — see [Sharing](https://statsy.co/docs/features/sharing).

A second option, **Pages on the live globe**, decides whether the public version shows which page each visitor is on, or places only.

> **Watch out.** Think about the page names before you publish the globe with paths on. A path like `/invoice/acme-corp` tells the world something about your customers. With paths off, the public globe shows city and country and nothing else.

## What the public globe knows

The public version deliberately carries less than the one you see signed in: place, referrer, channel, device, browser and operating system, plus the page when you allow it. No visitor ids, no intent scores, no revenue — nothing that could single a person out. Public live pages are not indexed by search engines.

Live is also the quickest way to check an install: open your own site in another tab and watch yourself appear. See [Install the script](https://statsy.co/docs/getting-started/install).

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