Topic: 508 people on line today ??

[Karl]

I'm always very sceptical when it comes to statistics, especially automated ones.

The c5alive site is showing 508 people on line today - is this a good thing, or should I be worried ? 

Hopefully some more techy, I.T. minded people will pass on their thoughts 

[mike7201]

Could be a variety of reasons. 

I'm no specialist, but from managing my own site, I've been advised that sometimes web-searching 'bots' can visit a page many times in one go.  Or, it could be someone refreshing the page, or perhaps something on TV or Radio encouraged the surge in visitors. 

Perhaps there really were that number of people visiting?  Does it say the time of day that people visited, and is it the same IP address?   

As I said, I'm no specialist, but I'm sure there's a reason for it.

It's most likely to be because this forum really is the best in the world, and the visitor numbers are only a sample of what's to come in future!

[Karl]

..looking at the stats we had over 7,000 page viewings as well, so I think we had a spiders/bots etc crawling over the site.

For a moment there I thought the site had become really popular