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  • Currently Active Users: 1028 Number of Active Users Today: 571

    How do you define active users?

    Also, how come we have 65 members and 963 guests?

    Are 963 users who don't have cookies, or are they all new comers?

    And finally: Why do the members online list has some names in bold, and some not?

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    Re: Currently Active Users: 1028 Number of Active Users Today: 571

    Originally posted by Sirotnikov
    And finally: Why do the members online list has some names in bold, and some not?
    Plus members and staff are in bold.
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    • #3
      Re: Currently Active Users: 1028 Number of Active Users Today: 571

      Originally posted by Sirotnikov
      How do you define active users?
      IIRC it's related to the number of unique connections made on the forums within a specified period of time (and no, I'm not sure what that timeframe is).

      Also, how come we have 65 members and 963 guests?

      Are 963 users who don't have cookies, or are they all new comers?
      Members are registered users, guests are not (or, at least, haven't logged into their accounts).
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      • #4
        Yes, but I assume that we don't really have 963 lurkers

        So it's probably members that are not logged in.

        Or are we increasing in popularity?

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        • #5
          yahoo bots
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          • #6
            Originally posted by MarkG
            yahoo bots
            Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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            • #7


              MarkG is going to be banned for sharing insider info

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              • #8
                Wait...


                So do yahoo bots count for the active users statistic?

                Or is it only members who have logged in throughout the day?

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                • #9
                  They count. An active user is someone that accessed the site in some (short) time period. All different IPs are counted since the forum software can't tell if it is being visited by crawlers, spam bots, other types of bots or humans.

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                  • #10
                    why not put "active members" category?

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                    • #11
                      Wait, sorry. I had not checked the /forums/ page in ages and spoke from memory. Taking a look now, it is odd. What exactly is "Active Users" and how can "Active Users now" be greather than "Active Users today"?

                      It seems to me that something should be reworded there if clarity is wished.

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                      • #12
                        Time zone issues. Without looking at the code, I'm pretty sure it measures "Active Users Today" by server time, i.e. EST. So if it's past midnight in Europe but not yet in the US, the "Today" stats shows "yesterday's" data for European users (but Europe gets off well: for Kiwis it's displaying yesterday's stats most of the time).

                        Originally posted by Sirotnikov
                        why not put "active members" category?
                        Because frankly I think we can all agree that this site has bigger problems than that ATM, I want to worry about those first
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