10 members, 210 guests.

[Jumpinbare]

Wow. Just happened to notice that with only 10 members online, we are being "watched" by 210 non-members. Maybe some of the 210 are actually some of us just not signed in, but wow.

Are we that popular/funny/pathetic/educational, or what?

 

[Outdated]

I've noticed up to near 500 "guests" here sometimes. I think a lot of them are search bots.

 

[FilterFreq]

From my understanding, a decent portion are probably bots (not the bad kind, but search crawlers), but some are likely obvious lurkers / readers as well.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

I'm sure there are countless autistic people and their families who have not joined the forums. Maybe they're not into social media. Maybe they are embarrassed or wanting to keep their business private. But they surely come here for answers.

 

[Nitro]

We used to have a function that allowed me to tell who was online.

It sorted out the guests from what are called web crawler bots.

At any given time we could have as many as six or more crawlers mixed in with the guests.

Crawler bots record pages that update the search engines, part of how the internet works for those who don't fully understand that aspect of it.

 

[Streetwise]

Wow. Just happened to notice that with only 10 members online, we are being "watched" by 210 non-members. Maybe some of the 210 are actually some of us just not signed in, but wow.

Are we that popular/funny/pathetic/educational, or what?

The what could be exmembers who were banned or people who are justifiably hesitant