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Why Are There Always Like 20 Guests?

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It seems like every time I look at the online users list there's like 20 guests, and there's usually 1 or 2 that are registering, and the rest are either "viewing forum list" or else viewing a thread from like two years ago. What's up with that? Is it a site bug? Or are there legitimately always random people looking at the site?

EDIT: OR IS IT SEBASTIAN'S MAGICAL ROBOT?????
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Post by Sebastian Lawe »

In most cases, the stats generator doesn't actually have to look at the website unless new content is available. Getting new posts takes roughly 10 - 60 seconds. It runs at 12:30 am daily, and finishes at 12:35 am the same day.

With the entire website always stored in cache, only new data is read.
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Post by Entity »

Hm, yeah I figured it was something like that... Odd.
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Post by ElectroYoshi »

It could also be an actual user who isn't logged in. I was one just a minute ago. :P
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Post by Newah »

It also could be search engine bots, which are quite common. Google has bots that crawl the web for results, as do all the other major engines.
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I'm not logged in as user on my phone, and I check regularly everyday.
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Post by Baufritz »

Gtarmetro wrote:I'm not logged in as user on my phone, and I check regularly everyday.

Same here.
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Post by Epowerj »

They might be ghosts of levels past....
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Post by ElectroYoshi »

Epowerj wrote:They might be ghosts of levels past....

Mind = blown.
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