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Where: Growth → Analytics → Visitors & stats
Open this page: admin.<your-site>/growth/analytics (replace <your-site> with your site address)
Before you start
You need permission to view analytics.
Steps
- Open Growth → Analytics → Visitors & stats. The page is titled Analytics.
- Under Right now, read Readers now. The chart shows readers per minute over the last 30 minutes.
- See Top stories and Where readers come from.
- Under Summary, pick a Time window: 1 hour, 24 hours or 48 hours.
- Read Page views, Visitors, Average read time and Sign-ups, and Top sections.
Good to know
- The "Right now" cards refresh about every 15 seconds while the tab is open. They stop when you leave the tab.
- A Taking off chip marks a story whose readers are growing fast. Share it again or add a follow-up story while people are interested.
- Where readers come from shows how readers found you: Google, social apps, other websites, or by typing your address.
- Visits from AI assistants shows readers who came from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude and other AI assistants: their Pageviews, Share of all pageviews, By assistant and Stories they sent readers to. Pick a Time window. Assistants that hide where a visit came from count as direct traffic.
- Numbers fill in as soon as someone opens your site: "No readers right now. This fills in as soon as someone opens your site."
- For past days and downloads, use Reports.
Common problems
- "We could not load the numbers. Check your connection and try again." Tap Try again.
- "No visits in this period yet." Pick a longer window.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Does it track readers across days?
Nothing is tracked across days in the returning-visitors report. See Reports.
How often do the numbers refresh?
The "Right now" cards refresh about every 15 seconds while the tab is open.