Most users ever online

[NavMicroSystems]

Dear Admins,

Even on the background that the number of registered users is increasing
and there are more and more Visitors
I doubt the following is correct:

Most users ever online was 236, - 27th March 2005 at 23:18

[Melanie]

It's possible. Whenever the email forum goes down or has a problem, there tends to be a surge of activity here. It also happens when there's some interesting posting, code or thread here and someone mentions it on the email forum, and again you get a rush of folks coming over to see.

Though I must admit I was surprised at that figure (almost a 100 up on the previous high total)... but don't forget that number includes Guests and you don't need to be logged-in to be a Guest.

[Luciano]

The cause of the visitors peak maybe the new forum avatar of Melanie or an
attempt to download the entire forum with a multi-threading offline browser.

[Melanie]

Gee... maybe I should put up a revealing bikini shot and monitor the stats...

Now I'm embarrassed... I added the Avatar on 26 March...

[NavMicroSystems]

Mel,

take care,
if the usage statistics goes up after changing your avatar to that bikini (or low ESR catsuit) shot
you will be charged for the extra traffic this caused ;-)

[sayzer]

After a long time, it has been changed.

"Most users ever online was 337, - 2nd July 2007 at 09:23."


What happened on that day?
Any special?

[mister_e]

mmm, might be caused by any bots and spider engines.

Currently i see more Yahoo slurp spider than any user and/or guest.

[GrandPa]

Gee... maybe I should put up a revealing bikini shot and monitor the stats...

I would STRONGLY suggest you to try this, just as a scientific impact study of course.

J-P

[nomad]

erm, i'd like to second that suggestion.