# Seeing anonymous user and crawler traffic, even though site is private

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeing-anonymous-user-and-crawler-traffic-even-though-site-is-private/181051
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeing-anonymous-user-and-crawler-traffic-even-though-site-is-private/181051 "2021-02-24T21:30:10Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/seeing-anonymous-user-and-crawler-traffic-even-though-site-is-private/181051/3 "2021-02-24T23:42:19Z")

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> [@sudoman](#):
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> I have the “login required” option enabled, and we have our SSO set up to only allow logins for users who meet certain criteria.

In addition to what Kris wrote, there will also be an anonymous request for your site’s login page or home page at the beginning of each SSO login request.

Your site’s TOS and Privacy pages can also probably be accessed by anonymous users.

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