diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 7b5987b9..35dbbff4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ Other Changes:
  - Fixed horizontal mouse wheel not forwarding the request to the parent window if ImGuiWindowFlags_NoScrollWithMouse is set. (#1463, #1380, #1502)
  - Fixed a include build issue for Cygwin in non-POSIX (Win32) mode. (#1917, #1319, #276)
  - OS/Windows: Fixed missing ImmReleaseContext() call in the default Win32 IME handler. (#1932) [@vby]
+ - Metrics: Changed io.MetricsActiveWindows to reflect the number of active windows (!= from visible windows), which is useful
+   for lazy/idle render mechanisms as new windows are typically not visible for one frame.
+ - Metrics: Added io.MetricsRenderWindow to reflect the number of visible windows.
  - Demo: Added basic Drag and Drop demo. (#143)
  - Demo: Clarified the use of IsItemHovered()/IsItemActive() right after being in the "Active, Focused, Hovered & Focused Tests" section.
  - Examples: Tweaked the main.cpp of each example.
diff --git a/imgui.cpp b/imgui.cpp
index 69c00ce2..4cc0e622 100644
--- a/imgui.cpp
+++ b/imgui.cpp
@@ -4356,6 +4356,8 @@ static void AddDrawListToDrawData(ImVector<ImDrawList*>* out_list, ImDrawList* d
 
 static void AddWindowToDrawData(ImVector<ImDrawList*>* out_render_list, ImGuiWindow* window)
 {
+    ImGuiContext& g = *GImGui;
+    g.IO.MetricsRenderWindows++;
     AddDrawListToDrawData(out_render_list, window->DrawList);
     for (int i = 0; i < window->DC.ChildWindows.Size; i++)
     {
@@ -4368,7 +4370,6 @@ static void AddWindowToDrawData(ImVector<ImDrawList*>* out_render_list, ImGuiWin
 static void AddWindowToDrawDataSelectLayer(ImGuiWindow* window)
 {
     ImGuiContext& g = *GImGui;
-    g.IO.MetricsActiveWindows++;
     if (window->Flags & ImGuiWindowFlags_Tooltip)
         AddWindowToDrawData(&g.DrawDataBuilder.Layers[1], window);
     else
@@ -4518,6 +4519,7 @@ void ImGui::EndFrame()
 
     IM_ASSERT(g.Windows.Size == g.WindowsSortBuffer.Size);  // we done something wrong
     g.Windows.swap(g.WindowsSortBuffer);
+    g.IO.MetricsActiveWindows = g.WindowsActiveCount;
 
     // Unlock font atlas
     g.IO.Fonts->Locked = false;
@@ -4541,7 +4543,7 @@ void ImGui::Render()
     g.FrameCountRendered = g.FrameCount;
 
     // Gather windows to render
-    g.IO.MetricsRenderVertices = g.IO.MetricsRenderIndices = g.IO.MetricsActiveWindows = 0;
+    g.IO.MetricsRenderVertices = g.IO.MetricsRenderIndices = g.IO.MetricsRenderWindows = 0;
     g.DrawDataBuilder.Clear();
     ImGuiWindow* windows_to_render_front_most[2];
     windows_to_render_front_most[0] = (g.NavWindowingTarget && !(g.NavWindowingTarget->Flags & ImGuiWindowFlags_NoBringToFrontOnFocus)) ? g.NavWindowingTarget->RootWindow : NULL;
@@ -14037,9 +14039,11 @@ void ImGui::ShowMetricsWindow(bool* p_open)
     {
         static bool show_draw_cmd_clip_rects = true;
         static bool show_window_begin_order = false;
+        ImGuiIO& io = ImGui::GetIO();
         ImGui::Text("Dear ImGui %s", ImGui::GetVersion());
-        ImGui::Text("Application average %.3f ms/frame (%.1f FPS)", 1000.0f / ImGui::GetIO().Framerate, ImGui::GetIO().Framerate);
-        ImGui::Text("%d vertices, %d indices (%d triangles)", ImGui::GetIO().MetricsRenderVertices, ImGui::GetIO().MetricsRenderIndices, ImGui::GetIO().MetricsRenderIndices / 3);
+        ImGui::Text("Application average %.3f ms/frame (%.1f FPS)", 1000.0f / io.Framerate, io.Framerate);
+        ImGui::Text("%d vertices, %d indices (%d triangles)", io.MetricsRenderVertices, io.MetricsRenderIndices, io.MetricsRenderIndices / 3);
+        ImGui::Text("%d active windows (%d visible)", io.MetricsActiveWindows, io.MetricsRenderWindows);
         ImGui::Text("%d allocations", (int)GImAllocatorActiveAllocationsCount);
         ImGui::Checkbox("Show clipping rectangles when hovering draw commands", &show_draw_cmd_clip_rects);
         ImGui::Checkbox("Ctrl shows window begin order", &show_window_begin_order);
diff --git a/imgui.h b/imgui.h
index 9c73471f..e28d8832 100644
--- a/imgui.h
+++ b/imgui.h
@@ -1158,7 +1158,8 @@ struct ImGuiIO
     float       Framerate;                  // Application framerate estimation, in frame per second. Solely for convenience. Rolling average estimation based on IO.DeltaTime over 120 frames
     int         MetricsRenderVertices;      // Vertices output during last call to Render()
     int         MetricsRenderIndices;       // Indices output during last call to Render() = number of triangles * 3
-    int         MetricsActiveWindows;       // Number of visible root windows (exclude child windows)
+    int         MetricsRenderWindows;       // Number of visible windows
+    int         MetricsActiveWindows;       // Number of active windows
     ImVec2      MouseDelta;                 // Mouse delta. Note that this is zero if either current or previous position are invalid (-FLT_MAX,-FLT_MAX), so a disappearing/reappearing mouse won't have a huge delta.
 
     //------------------------------------------------------------------