Anonymous users appearing in pageview stats on invite only site

[kaivalyam (Kai)]

Hey all,

I have had my wonderful Discourse site (thanks you guys!) up and running for about a month.
Although access is by invite only, in the page views stats I am seeing both anonymous users and crawlers.

Can anyone explain why this might be.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Sure – it’s because web crawlers hit the login page.

[kaivalyam (Kai)]

Ok, that did occur to me as possible.

Thanks @codinghorror