Hi,
next to the logout link, there are two numbers: I know the first represent the anonymous users connected to the website and the second the numer of users logged in.

I was wondering why, one day, I saw that there were almost 1000 anonymous users connected, but Google Analytics didn't report that huge amount of users.

So my question is: how much that anonymous users counting should be trusted?

Vito

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sun
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Location Karlsruhe
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Status: Active » Fixed

If your site was concurrently spidered by many robots, it's commonly known to have a giant amount of anonymous users for a short time-frame. Google Analytics filters these requests already.

Marking as fixed. If you feel, this should be a FAQ item in the README.txt, please let me know.

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vitozzo commented

Thanks for your answer.
Maybe it could be useful to have it as a FAQ ;)

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sun
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Title: Number of users » FAQ: Number of users
Version: 5.x-2.2 » 5.x-2.4
Component: User interface » Documentation
Assigned: Unassigned » sun
Category: support » task
Priority: Normal » Minor
Status: Fixed » Needs work
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sun
Primary language German
Location Karlsruhe
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Status: Needs work » Fixed
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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

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asb commented
Version: 5.x-2.4 » 6.x-1.x-dev

(subscribing as note to self or further investigation)