Who's Online counts crawlers [#21377]

Comment #1

insomoz commented 26 April 2005 at 19:33

I forgot to mention that im using ver 4.6

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you can try to set the whos online block "user activity" configuration lower, that times them out quicker. I dont think that is all that good of a solution either. I have the same problem, what happens is every page I visit on the site is generating a new "session" so to speak. So when administering the site, I suddenly have 87 guests! Im still reearching this, will post again if I find an answer.

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Comment #4

stevryn commented 19 May 2005 at 20:12

Ahhh this appears to be browser related. I went the site under Netscape and it didnt do it, So IE is the culprit, at least in my setup.

What I belive you are seeing is not only real guests, and probably also indexing spiders, but also the browser not correctly handling the sessions.

Try it with different browser and let me know how you make out.

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Comment #5

killes@www.drop.org commented 10 June 2005 at 15:51

The block counts the active sessions on your site. if you just got visited by a crawler, there are going to be a lot of open sessions (every page view creates a new one as crawlers do not bother about session cookies).

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Comment #6

allitbooks commented 30 October 2005 at 02:56

Happens in firefox as well. My site is only a month old and I am seeing upwards of 100 users at times. Gotta be wrong, although I am starting to see google, yahoo, msn and askjeeves search hits!