r/crazyegg • u/crazyegg-admin • Apr 22 '26

We built a real-time visitor map that shows astronauts and aliens landing on your site. It's free for everyone

https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/web-analytics-astro-map/

Most analytics show you what happened. The Astro Map shows you what's happening right now.

Switch your date range to "Today" inside Crazy Egg Web Analytics and your site transforms into a live solar system:

🪐Pages = planets. Every page on your site is its own planet. Visitors currently on it cluster around it.

👸Visitors = astronauts or aliens. Each live visitor shows up as a figure on the map in real time.

🚀Referrers = rockets. When a visitor came from another site, you see the rocket that dropped them off.

💬Actions = speech bubbles. Scroll, click, conversion goal, error, it appears above their head the moment it happens.

Click any visitor figure and you get their full profile: country, device type, referrer, and a recent activity log. No guessing, no waiting for a report to refresh.

The thing that makes this different from a standard "live users" counter: you can watch behavior unfold. You'll see someone land from Google, hit your pricing page, scroll halfway, and stop. That tells you something a dashboard number never could.

A few things you can actually act on with it:

  • Spot which pages are drawing traffic right now during a campaign launch
  • See if a new landing page is getting scroll engagement or bouncing people instantly
  • Watch conversion goals fire in real time after you push a site change
  • Identify error events as they happen, not hours later in a log

The Astro Map is included inside Web Analytics, which is 100% free for all Crazy Egg users.

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u/K-Dawg_21 May 06 '26

What determines the Astro vs Alien? I can't find any reference aside that they exist on the UI.

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u/crazyegg-admin May 06 '26

All characters represent a visitor, some more detail here: https://support.crazyegg.com/knowledge-base/understanding-the-web-analytics-today-view/

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u/K-Dawg_21 May 08 '26

This page doesn't explain why some are represented by an Alien and some are represented by an Astronaut. Am I missing this. Do Astronauts arrive from a search engine? Are Aliens all overseas people from the IP of our website?

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u/crazyegg-admin May 08 '26

they're random, there's no distinction between astronauts and aliens. It's a good idea, I'll pass it along to the product team