Community usage data doesn't seem trustworthy

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Hey, guys!

This image appears to be a list of various time durations, including seconds, hours, days, and weeks, likely used to compare or measure time spans. (Captioned by AI)
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These are the 15 most recent “Last seen” in my forum (very little presence, as you can see), but the consolidated pageview graph indicates an outstanding 281 logged in users just five days ago, on November 13th:

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What might be happening? Is the number so low the software looses count? haha

Also: what are crawlers?

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Those are pageviews by logged in users, not by different logged in users. So if you, for example, navigated the site a lot, this could be all caused by you. I had more than 500 pageviews per day, all by me when I explored the settings of Discourse.
You can find more information at the Documentation topic: Understanding pageviews and the site traffic report

Crawlers are programs that index content on the web, for example for search engines.

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