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by politelemon 1619 days ago
When it says "now", how "now" do they mean? I've refreshed a few times and the number hasn't changed (171,533). I went to cisa.gov (disabled all my blockers) but the number here is still the same over here.
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While I was looking at the data, the ranking of the top visited pages changed without reload, so I assume it is streamed in real-time. But I guess that the real-time data comes from aggregated and somewhat delayed data.
If you open up DevTools and look at the requests, realtime.json contains a "taken_at" property which shows that the data is updated every five minutes.
It's now showing 168,571 people, maybe it's every few minutes or possibly every hour as it's x:05 currently.