Another most users online record!

[David Dunlop]

I notice for the last while, the active user numbers have been in the 6,000 to 8,000 range fairly consistently, but today it has almost doubled that amount. At the same time, new comments/contributions on the various threads has kept its usual range.

Any idea what is going on, Hanno? Has the MLU Forum suddenly been discovered as a trove of valuable information? Does the website data give you any indication of where all these users are looking on the forum?


David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

I notice for the last while, the active user numbers have been in the 6,000 to 8,000 range fairly consistently, but today it has almost doubled that amount. At the same time, new comments/contributions on the various threads has kept its usual range.

Any idea what is going on, Hanno? Has the MLU Forum suddenly been discovered as a trove of valuable information? Does the website data give you any indication of where all these users are looking on the forum?

Hello David,

If you go to "Who's Online" - http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/online.php - you can see there are lot of "webcrawlers" visiting our site. These are Internet bots which systematically browse the World Wide Web. It is typically operated by search engines for the purpose of Web indexing. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler

This makes it very easy to search the contents of the Forum using e.g. Google. If you add "site:mapleleafup.net" to your search on Google, it shows only the search results found on our Forum.

Hope this helps,