Are Piwik reports real time?
By default Piwik reports are real time when you are viewing reports for “today”. Piwik will look at all your logs for today in the database and process the reports every time you request them. By default, reports for today are processed every 10 seconds. Piwik Super User can change this value in the “General Settings” admin panel. For high traffic websites, we recommend processing the reports once every hour (3600 seconds). For high traffic websites, we recommend “near real time” approach: please read the Setup auto archiving page for more information.
By default Piwik reports are real time (learn more in the user documentation) when you are viewing reports for “today” or any date range that includes today. Piwik will look at all your logs for today in the database and process the reports every time you request them. By default, reports for today are processed every 10 seconds. Piwik Super User can change this value in the “General Settings” admin panel. For high traffic websites, we recommend processing the reports once every hour (3600 seconds), which is a “near real time” approach. Please read the Setup auto archiving page for more information. Piwik also provides a Real time view of your visits on your site… right now! You can see all new Page views, actions and new visits coming to your site, refreshing automatically. This feature is called the Live! plugin and is enabled by default in the Piwik dashboard (check out the demo).
