Online Users - Guests Counter Glitch

[dylenbrivera]

My guest counter keeps flickering from +1 to -1. I doubt I'm getting any traffic since my website is not that popular. Any idea why this would happen? I also ran NodeBB in dev mode and watched for new connections, but nothing. So is this a glitch?

[a_5mith]

@dylenbrivera -1 guests?

A guest counts as any active connection, so could be google. Or a spammer, or any other range of things.

[dylenbrivera]

@a_5mith What I meant by +1 and -1 is that the guest counter could be at 12 and then flicker from 11 to 13.

[a_5mith]

@dylenbrivera said:

@a_5mith What I meant by +1 and -1 is that the guest counter could be at 12 and then flicker from 11 to 13.

Oh I see in that case then

@a_5mith said:

A guest counts as any active connection, so could be google. Or a spammer, or any other range of things.

You could have more than one bot from the same company viewing your site (it's quicker to do this)