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Unique visitor count wildly inflated for brief periods

Following a recent server move (roughly two weeks ago), one of my Mint installations is reporting what appears to be a grossly inflated unique visitor count… but only for a few hours at a time.

Specifically, last night during the 9 and 10 PM hours, the hourly unique visitor count jumped from the normal 1-4 range to 81 and 116 respectively. The 6 PM hour showed a smaller, yet still strange, uptick.

This happened once before in the day or two shortly after the server move, an occurrence I wrote off to some transition-related anomaly. I can think of no reason whatsoever why these counts would be legit.

Any clues as to what may be going on here? Screenshot available here for more details, and I’ll be happy to provide any other pertinent info.

And yes, I did run the ?moved query following the server move, if that factors in anywhere…

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Oct 15, '07 at 05:09 pm

Do your Repeat Referrers or Most Popular Pages provide any additional insight?

Normally I have both those panels disabled, but upon enabling neither shows anything abnormal. I’ve temporarily opened up Mint for all access so you can take a look around if it will help.

I should note that I have Mint installed on a number of other sites hosted on this same server (it’s a DV rig at MediaTemple), and none of the others have displayed this oddity.

Any other ideas?

Shaun Inman
Mint/Pepper Developer
Posted on Oct 19, '07 at 10:15 am

Unfortunately, no but try installing the official Debugger Pepper and email me a link to your debugger when the problem reappears.

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