Most Users online

[RichieW13]

bummer

[lottidah]

I had this problem recently as well. It's not really a problem per se, but it looks like inflated numbers due to bots crawling the site. Is there a way to reset this number? I couldn't find it in a quick look at the admin panel.

[WhiteOx]

I did this once before but can't remember exactly what I did I think I edited something in the database.

[teach1st]

Try this

To reset the max users online values, see this thread:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=722448&postcount=2

Run this query on your database. This should work:

UPDATE datastore SET data = 'a:2:{s:9:\"maxonline\";s:2:\"63\";s:13:\"maxonlinedate\";s:10:\"1069899814\";}' WHERE title = 'maxloggedin'

Change the red text appropriately. The first number is the number of logged in users. The second number is the date in unix timestamp format. The blue numbers correspond to the lengths of the values following them.

If you use table prefixes then you need to change datastore to include the prefix. You can run this query in your:

Admin CP -> Import & Maintenance -> Execute SQL Query

You can use this online tool to convert dates and times to Unix Timestamps:

http://www.onlineconversion.com/unix_time.htm

Just remember to enter in the GMT values for the date and not the date and time in your specific timezone.

[lottidah]

Hi and thanks for your reply.

The link you posted doesn't work and the query you posted isn't color coded...

Can you repost that link?

Thanks a bunch.

[teach1st]

Sorry about the link - I had info in a text file and the URL was truncated:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=722448&postcount=2

[RichieW13]

So that will reset the max users ever online, but won't it shoot up to 200+ again the next time the bots show up?

[teach1st]

So that will reset the max users ever online, but won't it shoot up to 200+ again the next time the bots show up?

Yes, it will. I think that vBulletin should address this issue and somehow exclude known spiders from the count.

[Floris]

I wouldn't mind having future versions give the admin the ability to not include spider bots in the max online users count.

Note: The cookie timeout is 900 seconds, which is 15 minutes - if you have 500 visits in those 15 minutes it can change from 50 to 500 in a few seconds or minutes as usually various spider bots come and spider and get follow ups from other ips to spider a level deeper.