# Understanding anonymous metrics on a login required site

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Created:** [February 5, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-anonymous-metrics-on-a-login-required-site/108457 "2019-02-05T22:24:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chaboi\_3000](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/chaboi_3000/32/163015_2.png) [@Chaboi\_3000](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Chaboi_3000)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2019, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/understanding-anonymous-metrics-on-a-login-required-site/108457/2 "2019-02-05T22:36:39Z")

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A web **crawler** is an **internet** bot which systematically browses the worldwide web typically for the purpose of web indexing web. search engines and some other sites use web **crawling** or spidering. (Not to confuse with that creature). You can just log out of your account, which will turn you into an anonymous user with no account, and check if you have access or not.

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