katman1971 Posted May 6, 2008 Share Posted May 6, 2008 I went in and had a look at who was online. I was happy to see that there was much more visitors than I normally receive at the same time......but when I take a closer look I see that the same IP address is listed with all the visitors. Can anyone tell me if there is something sinister going on? Or is there a simple explaination why all the visitors would have the same IP address? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arietis Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 I went in and had a look at who was online. I was happy to see that there was much more visitors than I normally receive at the same time......but when I take a closer look I see that the same IP address is listed with all the visitors. Can anyone tell me if there is something sinister going on? Or is there a simple explaination why all the visitors would have the same IP address? i've seen this on my own site as well and i don't think it's anything to worry about. when i see this, the ip addresses are usually googlebot.com or crawl.yahoo.com. when a normal customer goes to your site, the urls generated for the pages have an oscsid= value - this is the session identifier. so all of the requests from the same session are considered to be from the same user and therefore do not create separate records in the whos_online table. when the crawlers scan your site, i don't see the oscsid= value, so each of these requests are treated as individual 'users' as far as osc is concerned and you end up seeing them as multiple lines in the who's online report. osc only pays attention to the oscsid= value to determine unique users, not the ip address. i hope that's a simple enough explanation for you. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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