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Most users ever online was 33 on Today, 02:34 AM


JasonB

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This has been happening a lot on every board of late, MattHardwick board which is very well subscribed but not massive had a new record 415 users the other day, attributed to google bots & alike

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I've reset this statistic now ;)

The problem is that the counter counts guests as well as members, which I don't want it to do, so at 2.34am there were merely lots of bots browsing around trying to get on our board.... none signed up successfully!

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Traill these are in fact not malicious bots trying to sign up! This issue is wholly due to how Yahoo index a website, which they have changed very recently. They're now sending multiple requests from different IP addresses instead of from just one. Since this board software uses the IP to match a single session for spiders, this causes each request from Yahoo to be seen as a separate session (or guest) - hence a large number of "guests" which made the online list go up.

We're not the only ones - across the Internet board webmasters have reported similar strange statistics, with up to 1000 hits. It's not really a problem for us as we can turn this statistic off but it is causing some headaches for some websites:

http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=...r&fid=31431

and

http://digg.com/software/Yahoo_Spider_wrec..._guest_tracking

We will keep an eye on this for you all.

KR

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