Tons of visitors
 

I upgraded to 3.7 last week. Until that time, the most people I had ever had on at one time was just under 1,000 with around 45 members and the rest visitors.

A moment ago, I noticed 1,038 on with only 17 members with the rest visitors. Since there is nothing going on which would create this jump in visits (and the counter says none are spiders) why would this happen? Is there some adjustment in the admin cp which needs to be adjusted?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Imagine!
wait till you upgrade to 3.7.1!!! :up:

Do you have the hack installed that identifies spiders? Is there any chance that these visitors are yahoo slurp spiders? They tend to come in such numbers.

EDIT:

I thought I had but I hadn't added the config.php change I needed to. So it was showing zero spiders when it was/is Yahoo slurp spiders.

Thanks for the help.

If you want to get rid of 99% of the yahoo bot spiders, either use iptables or an htaccess file with a deny host and kill off this ip block 74.6.0.0/16 leave the other ip block yahoo uses for the spiders open, you wont get but 10 to 20 of them at that point.

You should setup a robots.txt file as well, might take yahoo a few days to start following the rules set in the robots file.