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Cr4 is cheating us? or Hacker invade? or something wrong?

11/19/2008 5:19 AM

Is there something wrong with the cr4? Occassionally I glance at the counter at right hand of the box, I found sometimes it counts more than 600 visitors. its exciting, but when I check the function of who is online, I supprised to find there is only less than 160 visitors. a moment later, it become more than 300, again a while, it decline to 200. No matter how I count, the counter is alway greater than real numbers.

Dont blam my officious. just put forward the issue , it might be an occassional events. or may someone is making trouble.
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11/19/2008 5:35 AM

I just did a check - The given total was 111, and I also counted 111. I'm so glad I didn't have to check with a big number ! Maybe people are logging on and off when you are counting all those logged on ? I think 877 is the most recorded people at one time, and 600 is far bigger than I've ever noticed logged on at any given time. Perhaps the total number logged on takes some time to refresh ? I shall stay up tonight and keep a close eye on this troubling issue. My best theory at present is that the sudden drop coincides with lunch-break somewhere.

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11/19/2008 8:57 AM

Occassionally we get crawled by bots and that drives the visitor counts way up. We pull those inflated numbers out of the official counts, though.

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11/19/2008 12:37 PM

Doh ! - I never thought of that one. My very old, and very English, Aunt would keel over if I used the expression 'crawling bots' in front of her.

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