Site Seems Excessively Slow - 5/6/20

Darn. Thanks for looking.

Thanks for all the hard work on this site, but what i dont get is this; "How is there 2646 guests?"

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Yeah, I've been trying to sort that one out myself. The number actually went UP after I blocked Guest access permissions to the site.

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Originally Posted by theGinsue

Yeah, I've been trying to sort that one out myself. The number actually went UP after I blocked Guest access permissions to the site.

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why not set it so no guest can access the forum ?

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Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo

why not set it so no guest can access the forum ?

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I was kicking around that same question tonight. Do guests help with ad revenue? I don't think so. So, how do they improve the experience of this site?

Is there concern about not having more people coming across the site and injecting 'new blood' into it? [Sofa]

The site has always been "open" to encourage guests to join.

Are you going to take the time and effort to sign up for a site when you have no idea what goes on there?

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Originally Posted by theGinsue

Yeah, I've been trying to sort that one out myself. The number actually went UP after I blocked Guest access permissions to the site.

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Could it be everyone's links to pictures and other websites counting as "guests?"

Poor tracking of bots and visit length = each page spidered by a single bot (like google) often counts as a "unique" guest.

So if Google checks and indexes 2,000 pages over the last half hour, the site incorrectly reports 2,000 unique visitors.

Block Google. Problem solved. [Coffee]