Who's Online showing a count for each

Who's Online shows a total increment for the same IP address if the user opens a new page?

I checked my site this morning and found an extraordinary 84 users (usually 20 at the most). I checked my Who's Online and found that some twerp in Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea (alarm bells there) has opened a whole lotta pages with the same session ID, and each page opening constitutes a count increment for Who's Online.

I thought Who's Online was incremented by session/IP address in some formula? Does browser window come into this formula?

Anyway, I've put a block on that IP address range for my website, our content is of little interest to New Guineans, and it looks like suspicious behavior to me. I was hacked once, so I'm exercising some vigil.

---Diana

dbrewster:

Who's Online shows a total increment for the same IP address if the user opens a new page?

I checked my site this morning and found an extraordinary 84 users (usually 20 at the most). I checked my Who's Online and found that some twerp in Port Moresby, Papua, New Guinea (alarm bells there) has opened a whole lotta pages with the same session ID, and each page opening constitutes a count increment for Who's Online.

I thought Who's Online was incremented by session/IP address in some formula? Does browser window come into this formula?

Anyway, I've put a block on that IP address range for my website, our content is of little interest to New Guineans, and it looks like suspicious behavior to me. I was hacked once, so I'm exercising some vigil.

---Diana

I don't know the algorithm used by Zen, but I know this happens regularly with my server stats software and certain ISPs (like AOL) swith IP numbers with almost every page visited.

Thanks for reply, Raquel.

The Who's Online shows that it is the same IP address and session ID, only different pages. I would think this would not be counted as separate "users." I suspect it is a hack attempt of some sort.

---Diana