Where do I actually see a single visitor's event timeline in Croct?
I just turned on tracking and I want to inspect what one specific visitor did, step by step, rather than only looking at the aggregate charts.
Is that per-visitor view part of analytics, or does it live somewhere else in the dashboard? I keep landing on the charts and I cannot find a single person's activity anywhere.
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The per-visitor view is not in analytics. It lives in the profile explorer, which shows the individual profile for a single visitor along with an activity timeline of that person's events in chronological order. Every event Croct recorded for that profile is listed there, so you can follow the journey one step at a time instead of reading aggregates.
A profile holds three kinds of data for that visitor: statistical, behavioral, and personal. The timeline sits alongside those attributes, so you see both who the profile is and what they did. See the profile explorer and activity timeline guide for how to open a profile and read its events.
If you want to watch activity as it happens rather than after the fact, the live sessions view streams what visitors are doing on the site in real time. Think of it as the live feed; the profile timeline is the stored history for one person.