# Why do my stats show anonymous users when I'm 100% SSO?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-do-my-stats-show-anonymous-users-when-im-100-sso/128745
**Category:** Data & reporting
**Created:** [September 17, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-do-my-stats-show-anonymous-users-when-im-100-sso/128745 "2019-09-17T00:59:36Z")
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### Author: ![Cardinalflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@Cardinalflyer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cardinalflyer)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-do-my-stats-show-anonymous-users-when-im-100-sso/128745/1 "2019-09-17T00:59:36Z")

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My site uses SSO and does not let anyone return from my authenticating SSO site until they log in or join.

Today for the first time I see two anonymous users on the pageviews bar graph of the dashboard. How could that happen? Could there be an access leak?

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/f/8/f830dd4d1690f7b52f0e0e62fec3f3b68ac4353b.png)

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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-do-my-stats-show-anonymous-users-when-im-100-sso/128745/2 "2019-09-17T02:57:24Z")

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It’s people hitting the `/login` page most likely.

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### Author: ![JimPas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jimpas/32/148179_2.png) [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 11:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-do-my-stats-show-anonymous-users-when-im-100-sso/128745/3 "2019-11-24T23:14:40Z")

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I had noticed the same thing here on my forum - a private forum. Looking at _Users_ in the Dashboard showed a couple of users who hadn’t been on in a while but had visited on the day of the anonymous visits. These users, as @Falco said, landed on the login page. Early on when our forum was first up, we had up to 26 “anonymous” and just a few “members” shown. 🙂
