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Annisha Pevensey
Registered User
Join date: 10 Oct 2008
Posts: 91
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01-21-2010 03:31
Is this odd or is this normal? My traffic has stayed at the same number over the last couple of days. The first day i had 7 visitors to my store and then the next day i had 17 visitors to my store yet the traffic number didnt increase *looks confused* How can this be lol...Any traffic experts out there  Anni |
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Sling Trebuchet
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Join date: 20 Jan 2007
Posts: 4,548
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01-21-2010 04:19
Traffic is basically the total number of minutes spent by avatars in the parcel over a 24 hour period.
10 avatars spending 5 minutes - 50 traffic points
1 avatar spending 120 minutes = 120traffic points
The updates happen at intervals, so the numbers lag behind current by at least a day.
Sometimes the number 'sticks' for a couple of days.
In theory there is a super-complex secret formula for the Traffic number, but tests in the past have shown it to be 1 point per avatar minute.
The formula has been modified since yesterday to exclude counting avatars flagged as Scripted Agents.
I can see the effect of this today when I look at some places that use bots and had high traffic because of them.
Any bot-using parcel that has not dropped in the traffic rankings almost certainly hasn't registered their bots. Naughty!
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