So many guests suddenly.

[karoshio]

I suddenly have a lot of guests but so far none have registered.
Online now: 32 (members: 1, guests: 31).
Do you think this is legitimate traffic? Is it bots or what? I've just never really had this happen after many years of different forums.

 

[Marc]

And how would we know this? We can only assume.

As a forum admin of your forum, you should be able to view their IP and judge if they're a bot or human.

 

[Justin]

I'd also suggest adding Google Analytics.

 

[Gizmo]

Have you tweeted or made an FB status about the site? If so it's just social network bots.

 

[CyberFreak]

You would be surprised at the percentage of "guests" that are bots and alot of those bots are malicious (not all but alot are).

 

[Mik.]

I think they're mostly are guests and a bit are bots. Your forum has a decent activity which makes me think its guests.

 

[Nebulous]

I suddenly have a lot of guests but so far none have registered.
Online now: 32 (members: 1, guests: 31).
Do you think this is legitimate traffic? Is it bots or what? I've just never really had this happen after many years of different forums.

Did you post a link to your forum on twitter? They tend to send flocks of bots.

 

[karoshio]

Nah, i don't use any Social Network sites, i personally hate them all.