Not sure if this really relates to the consolidated view or a more basic issue, but I’m seeing the stats claim a lot of “anonymous user” page views on my site, which ONLY permits access by logged-in users. Other than pages like privacy policy, TOS, etc. which I’d like to block from non-logged in users (but can’t in Discourse currently), no other pages are accessible at all unless you’re logged in. The crawler count is similarly suspect, but with a much smaller actual count.

I was just wondering about a similar thing. I just updated to beta 9 and saw the following: [Screenshot_20190122-130715_1] It’s telling me I have way more logged in users than even exist on my forum. Where’s this data gathered from?

[image] 10ColorsTenkara: It’s telling me I have way more logged in users than even exist on my forum. That is Logged in users PAGEVIEWS, as one user can have hundreds of pageviews in one day.

Cheers. :person_facepalming: That’s what I get for not reading carefully enough. Stupid mistake on my part.

[image] Falco: That is Logged in users PAGEVIEWS Apparently that text is not that intuitive. Would from Crawlers from Logged in users from Anonymous cowards look simpler to understand @10ColorsTenkara and @L30110 ?

[image] TheBestPessimist: from Anonymous cowards Why, I never! How dare you sir! :wink:

After a lot of years, that title still makes me giggle a little :blush:

Yes, I like that. Good suggestion.

[image] j.jaffeux: What’s your basis to consider it suspect? I’ve a similar query. I’m seeing a consistent 2000ish crawler hits per day. Is this all the login page? I likewise allow access only to logged in users: [42]

[image] Alexander_Wright: I’m seeing a consistent 2000ish crawler hits per day. Is this all the login page? Very likely yes. Run the crawler report in Admin, Reports to see details: /admin/reports/web_crawlers

Mystery solved. The ops team put an uptime checker on the site: LogicMonitor SiteMonitor/1.0: 50339

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) January 25, 2019, 3:25am 18

Everyone should be sending a user-agent.. so if they aren’t, that’s not just a bug but kinda designing for evil.

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