Posted by mbstevens on 10/12/06 16:32

paul wrote:
> How could I know how many visitors are visiting in the same time (connected)
> in my website?
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
You can do it if all of your pages are server-side generated, since the
program that generates the pages will have various methods for
maintaining state. This could be expanded to test for visitors from
unique addresses and keeping a count. Errors could still be made, for
instance if you had several visitors coming in from behind the same
firewall, but I imagine the count would be within reason for some uses.

I occasionally visit sites that tell me how many visitors are on line.
My impression is that the administrators are patting themselves on the
back, but I suppose the information might also be useful if one wanted
to know if a forum had enough people present for a useful conversation
to ensue.

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