[Eug-lug] How many people are on my website?

[John Sechrest]

You have to define what "online" means in a context where you
are making http connections at random spacings.

If you count the collection of authenticated requests in the last
N minutes as "active", then you can use that as a value. 



Matthew Jarvis <mattj at bikefriday.com> writes:

 % I've always wanted to know the answer to this...
 % 
 % If I'm running Apache on Linux, is there a way to find out how many 
 % people are currently considered "online" at the website?
 % 
 % I thought of counting occurances of "http" or something similar would do 
 % the trick...
 % 
 % Or would I have to make it harder by counting session id's or....
 % 
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