Live View – See Your Website Traffic in Real Time

Shopify has added Live View for all merchants in their analytics dashboard!

Live View allows you to see how many visitors are on your website in real time. It also shows you how many total visitors have been on your website in a day, how many total orders you received in a day, as well as your total sales that day. You’ll be able to see how many visitors have added items to their shopping cart, how many have reached your checkout page, and how many have made purchases.

To Use Live View:

1. From your Shopify Dashboard, click Analytics
2. Click Live View
   
3. Click Live View to learn more.

Here are some tips for using Live View with your store.

• When you send an email marketing campaign, switch to Live View to watch how quickly your customers react to your email.
• Create Facebook Ads and then use Live View to measure the success of those ads and to see where your followers are located on the map.
• When you are promoting a product on Twitter by tweeting about it, you can immediately go to Live View after you tweet to see how many people click on the link for that product. If you do this several times a day (with different products), it can help you determine the best time to tweet for optimal clicks. It can also help to determine the best days to tweet, and the best performing products.

What do you think of this new tool? How will you use it? Share in a comment below!