Come on mfyvie, I'm not a newbie at all :D

Well, I also have "who has wisited today" add-on, it shows the user's last activity time when you hover on nickname. I've counted more than 10 while who's online page shows only 5 members and 1 guest.

I'm not suggesting you are a newbie. I thought myself that I wasn't showing enough guests, but when I checked it was correct.

Are you saying the display of the members or the guests is incorrect? At first you said it was guests, then you bring up the point about your who has visited today mod which gives you information on members. My mod does nothing at all to the display of members.

If you still doubt the mod, best to look into the session table. Which version of vb are you running? It makes a difference because two different sets of code run depending on the version.

Hi,
Now there is no database error , but despite there is 6 members , i can see in vBadvanced just 1, me.
It's working good at forumhome.

Sorry, I thought I'd changed the example to -1, it was still on 0 (now fixed). In your vbadanced module the line should read spider = -1, not spider = 0. Change that and it should work the way you want it to.

Thank you!
Now it's working.

Well both are incorrect. For more than 30 minutes, it just showed maximum 5 members and only 1 guest (and another proof, more than 20 guests enter forum just via google in an hour)

Maybe it's because i use too many mods. By the way I'm using classic vbulletin 3.6.7 version.

Keyness, the only way for you to verify this is to look into the session table. There you will see the guests and how they are classified (by checking the spider column). -1 means a real guest, 0 means not decided, and 1 means a spider.

I have many guests who arrive on my forum by google, but in reality they don't do anything and they don't move around the site. In this case their status may stay on "0" and they won't get shown in the totals. For example, I have a lot of hits where google has brought someone directly to an attachment or an image has been sideloaded because an image in one of my threads has been directly linked in another forum's thread. This type of thing creates sessions in your table, but these users show no activity on your forum in reality.

I don't think any other mods are affecting it, because those totals are nothing more than the number of rows returned from the mysql query that checks the spider status of each connection.

For example, on my session table right now I have 89 guests with spider status -1 (real guest), 4 with status 0 (unknown) and 81 with status 1 (spider). Of course different forums will vary in how many real guests they have versus spiders.

Just bear in mind that a visitor coming in via google could have come in for any reason - it could even be that they found an image via google images and that image was displayed on the google images page - this will appear like a visit, but it isn't really.

If you want to be really sure you could do something like a grep on your web server logs for each IP address you want to test. I did this when I was testing the mod, because like you, I thought it might not be working. During this process I actually discovered how many other forums were sideloading my attachments and I reconfigured my web server to block them!

What software did you use to generate those graphs and how to?

The software is called MRTG. It's free, but to be honest it isn't that simple to setup and get running. Once you get it running then you need some extra code to provide the vbulletin specific stuff, I was thinking of releasing that as a mod, but I didn't want to deal with the million requests about how to get MRTG running :(

This is the who's online hack I've been waiting for, much simplier and truer than others out there. Like you, I just want to hide the spiders, my users won't care to see what spiders are on the site so no reason to display them IMO, great hack, installing now :)