There's no way I had that many visitors!

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  • digitalhome
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2004
    • 140
    • 3.6.x

    There's no way I had that many visitors!

    from my site today

    Most users ever online was 531, Today at 06:45 AM
    Generally speaking during the day, I get a 100 to 120 online at a time. Today it got as high as 180 or so.

    So imagine my surprise when I looked today and saw 531 at 6:45 am. Normally I might have 30 or 40 at that time.

    How can this be? I understand that spiders can boost the numbers considerably but from 30 or 40 to 531???

    Thoughts?

    Thanks in advance.
  • Floris
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2001
    • 37767

    #2
    If each search engine comes with 50 spiders, it could quickly boost to a lot ..

    What is your cookie timeout?

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    • digitalhome
      Senior Member
      • Aug 2004
      • 140
      • 3.6.x

      #3
      What is your cookie timeout?
      wow, that's kind of a personal question isn't it?

      Set at default, 900.

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      • Floris
        Senior Member
        • Dec 2001
        • 37767

        #4
        Then I am afraid you simply did have that many guests online in the 900 seconds time period.

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        • MarkyLeonard
          New Member
          • Apr 2004
          • 15
          • 2.3.4

          #5
          One way this happens is that a board member can upload an image as an attachment, and then use the attachment url on somewhere like offtopic.com (or anywhere with high traffic)

          If 500 people view it over there, you will have 500 guests "Viewing attachment in XXXXXXX"

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          • digitalhome
            Senior Member
            • Aug 2004
            • 140
            • 3.6.x

            #6
            Well Floris, I'd like to think that you're correct but I doubt it!

            Marky, I only allow a select few to upload attachments (to reduce bandwidth) so I doubt that was the case.

            Guess, I'll just have to get up early in the morning and find out whats going on!

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            • MarkyLeonard
              New Member
              • Apr 2004
              • 15
              • 2.3.4

              #7
              Any link would do it, so if someone pasted a thread URL elsewhere it could have the same effect.

              It's a good thing IMHO!

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              • digitalhome
                Senior Member
                • Aug 2004
                • 140
                • 3.6.x

                #8
                I guess so. I have a fair number of advertisers on my site so I worry that they will think I'm "cooking the books".

                I think I'll review my web logs tonight and see if I see anything wonky.

                Cheers.

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                • digitalhome
                  Senior Member
                  • Aug 2004
                  • 140
                  • 3.6.x

                  #9
                  Interesting.

                  I analyzed my web log for the 30 minutes in question and surprisingly it says that there was a lot of visitors.

                  BUT

                  Over 400 of them visited the member.php page.

                  I find it odd that 400 people came and looked at this page.

                  Is this sometype of robot or something ????

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