| Most users ever online was "more than expected" [message #30101] |
Sat, 04 February 2006 13:23  |
Kermit
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We're running Fudforum v2.7.3 (upgraded in the last week from prev version) and like the new (to us at least) "Most Users Ever Online Was xxx" feature 
For a day or so this worked well and showed 9 users then 12 at some point, but on Friday morning at 5.23am (GMT) at a time when our forum would normally be pretty much dead (as we're in the UK) this figure hit 200 users online when i'd have been very surprised if there was more than 1 or 2 logged in users around and less than 10 anon users.
Often there seems to be an unusually large portion of anon users on our forum but when I've looked in the past during normal times this has never really been more than 20 max.
q: is it likely that internet search bots could have created this unrealistic figure?
q: is there an easy way to reset the figure and/or exlude anon users from the stats?
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| Re: Most users ever online was "more than expected" [message #30105 is a reply to message #30101] |
Sat, 04 February 2006 19:45  |
Ilia
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The unusually high number is generally the result of a search engine or a proxy crawling the site. Since they don't send cookies back, each request from the appears as a separate user.
You can modify the logic inside logedin.inc.t to exclude anonymous users from the count.
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| Re: Most users ever online was "more than expected" [message #30123 is a reply to message #30105] |
Sun, 05 February 2006 20:52 |
tufan
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| Ilia wrote on Sat, 04 February 2006 21:45 |
You can modify the logic inside logedin.inc.t to exclude anonymous users from the count.
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Is it as simple as setting
$obj->online_users_anon = q_singleval('0');
or is it more complicated?
Is there a way to exclude anon users from the "Views" stats of the messages?
I guess some people in our forum use a script to visit certain topics anonymously and repeatedly to make them "popular" .  Childish, but it's real
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(And a little suggestion that doesn't deserve a new topic: Why not allow aliases in THIS forum?)
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