Answered What happens to the Online Activity

[Tokina]

Hi, I don't know if this question was asked before but i am curious.

So few hours ago, we had like 3k+ members and guests in the online Activity then all of a sudden it drops to like 1k+ something. Is there a reason for this drop when it happens, this happens randomly? It is like a group of leechers invades the site then leave all of a sudden. Is this related to this? http://www.anime-sharing.com/forum/announcements-news-2/rss-disabled-158229/ crawling bots?

 

[Checkmate]

Peak hours. It starts from around 7AM EST through 12PM EST (3000-5000 members, depending on the day of the week and month) then it will drop exponentially, down to 1500-2000.

Traffic from crawling bots are minimal. Regarding the RSS problem, some site used our RSS stream to scrap our content and and placed tons of ads and other nasties on it, we ban them on case-by-case basis now.

RSS scrapers are being excluded from online activity. Like-wise, identified crawling bots are excluded from the counts as well.

Edit: Forgot to mention that User Activity are cached for 5 minutes. Only user who has any browsing activity within 5 minutes are counted.

 

[DreamCa7ch3r]

I think it just depends on the time of the day. Many people have work and school.

 

[Checkmate]

I assume this answer your question. Marked as answered.