Near the bottom of the main / front / home page it shows you how many connections there are. Connections may mean some Google bots for example, sniffing around. Also, the forum software does not know for sure when someone leaves this site, so it does have a time out feature which, if the connection does not request something new (another page), then it is considered gone. Sometimes that means someone is reading a long thread but is not counted as they have not clicked anything for a while. Sometimes this means someone or something that has actually gone, is still being counted as online.

I actually limit the number of "bots" on these forums, as some bots are very naughty! So hopefully I have a reasonable balance going and reflection of real connections from people and nice bots. I suspect if you halved the number of visitors shown though, that would actually reflect the number of unregistered people visiting the site.

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There are two categories of travellers, those that experience a country and those that take their home with them wherever they go.

Be warned, as with any forum, picking a fight with the admin guy is not recommended!