Site Statistics

[Egaladeist]

I think it really depends upon how you have the stats set and how accurate they are...stats are easy to manipulate in your favor...in many cases as much as 90% of traffic could be bots...
eg. if you look at Antionline's stats you'll see approximately 160 online...with 4 members online...so you could assume there's 156 visitors...but...
if you look further into the stats you'll see that the Yahoo, MSN, and other bots are counted for every page they index...( Google is generally listed as one...but even those stats can be manipulated if you count every page Google indexes...manipulating these could raise your stats into the hundreds )...
a quick count shows that of these 156 visitors 97 are bots...leaving a possible 59 visitors...
but then some bots don't come up as bots...so you can reckon some of the 59 remaining visitors are likely bots too...
so...let's assume that half those are bots...then the figure for actual visitors now becomes 30...

4 members and 30 visitors ( which seems a lot more reasonable than 4 and 160 )

I personally find it very difficult to believe that a site with an Alexa traffic rating over a million and a Google page rank of 3 has close to the same traffic as Antionline with a traffic rating below 80,000 and a Google rank of 5...

your stats are not accurate....I've noticed most sites stats don't gel with reality...either they have corrupted or manipulated stats...on purpose or un-intentional...

if it doesn't gel...then it's probably wrong.