Select Now in the range picker.
What it shows
The last 30 minutes, in one-minute buckets.
It is the same dashboard as any other range — the same tiles, the same breakdowns, the same filters — just over a very short, moving window. There is no separate real-time screen.
How often it refreshes
It polls while the tab is in the foreground. The header shows Live with a pulsing dot while it is connected — hover it and it says "Refreshes every 30 seconds". The chart refreshes on that clock; the cards below it every two minutes. There is no "updated 12s ago" stamp in this mode, on purpose: a chart that moves every half-minute under a label about the last full refresh would leave you unsure which to believe. If the connection drops, the badge reads "Reconnecting…" and prints the reason beside it.
Polling pauses while the tab is in the background. When you come back, it refreshes.
You can force a refresh at any time with the refresh button beside the range picker, on any range, not only this one.
Granularity is fixed
Minute buckets, with no choice. Every other range lets you pick between hour, day, week and month; over thirty minutes there is nothing else sensible to offer.
Delay
A page view appears within a few seconds of happening. There is no batching window and no scheduled aggregation step — the event is written when it arrives and the next poll picks it up.
If nothing appears while you are actively loading pages of your own site, the likely reason is that you are excluded from your own numbers, which is usually what you asked for. See My own visits are being counted for both switches.
What is not here
There is no live visitor list — no table of who is on the site right now, what page they are on, or where they are. That is a deliberate omission rather than a missing feature: it requires exactly the per-person identity TrueStat is built without. See What we deliberately cannot do.
You get the aggregate, on every dimension the rest of the dashboard has.
Using it
Two things it is genuinely good for:
Confirming an install. Paste the tag, load your site, select Now. Your view appears within seconds and you have proof the whole path works.
Watching a launch. When a post lands somewhere, Now with the Referrers card underneath tells you where the traffic is coming from as it arrives.