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Online Status Monitoring

posts: 49 Canada

First a brief comment on my issue:

My Tiki site (www.ottawavolleyball.com) regularly has about 2-4 users online; but every so often I see the Online Users count shoot up to over 100. It, then eventually dies down to something like 1 or 2 over about 10-20 minutes. Now I suppose it is possible that my site is sporadically that popular but I would really like to find some way to verify for sure.

So, my question:

Is there anyway for the site admin to see CURRENT online status? For example, a listing of referrer IP addresses for each user that is connected while they are connected.

Is it safe to assume that there is a session started for every connection that is made and that this could be (or maybe already is???) monitored and displayed somehow??

thanks,
peter…

posts: 2881 United Kingdom

Hi There,

Quite a good post and I may even make it into a wiki page unless you want to !

Things that make online users go up!

  • A user with cookies disabled browsing the site. Each request will create a new online user.
  • A search engine, same as above, depending on the engine
  • People grabbing content with the likes of wget, each get is a new online user


and many more where cookies are either rejected or not taken.

the best way is to tail your apache log file. This will reveal IP addresses and User Agent strings, you'll easily be able to tell if it a googlebot or alexiabot or whatever.

Damian
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