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Is anyone getting pageviews of one session counted as unique visits?

In Secret Crushes I have one person visiting and viewing 50+ pages within 15 minutes, but each pageview shows up as a new unique visit. Then the next day, they’ll view another 10+ pages, but it’ll all be grouped under the same IP. It really skews my daily averages cause it counts as 50+ uniques, instead of one.

The reverse happens for me as well. Someone will show up one day and the pageviews will all be grouped as one session, but on the day after, all pageviews will be counted as separately unique (even though session is short).

It’s also sporadic sometimes; one session of 10+ pageviews, will have 3 grouped in one session, and 7 grouped in another, even though it’s all within 3 minutes.

Anyone have an explanation for this?

I think I’ve found the problem with my setup. It appears that the time on the server is 3hours behind…

trying to set the right time, but something weird is going on with the timezones…

My timezone appears to be correct, but I’m still having this problem.

Here’s an example:

As you can tell, the latest session should be grouped as one, but it’s separated into two. I can’t figure out the common thread that may be causing this, it happens to different people, but it doesn’t happen to them all the time.

One thing I also figured out is that even though they aren’t grouped as one session in crushes, visits will still count them as 1 unique visit (I was wrong above in saying that it skews my daily averages).

Here’s a different example:

The highlighted visits (around 50+ total) are all from a single 15 minute session, but each pageview is counted as an individual visit instead of being grouped into one. If this is an expiring cookie issue, I would expect the sessions to be grouped after a while. I also wouldn’t expect it to happen with the frequency that it does if the time is wrong once a day.

Any news on this issue, or anyone experiencing the same thing? I’m still getting occurrences of this strange behaviour.

This problem is much less frequent now (used to be once a week), but still happens on occasion (once a month). Thought I’d bring up this thread to see if anyone has begun experience this issue, or if there’s been any development on a solution.

An example from this morning:

I was having the same problem, I just dropped the tables from the database and installed fresh again and it seems to be working properly now. Sucks I lost all that old data though.