Is there ever a time when AF is devoid of users?

[Ravenshire]

So very quickly I did a scan of our logs from yesterday.

If you ignore bots (i.e. Google) then there was at least one request for 20,397 seconds out of a possible 86,400. So the site is being "used" about 24% of the time. However that number is probably completely inaccurate, because it only considers the time in which a user loads a page as visiting, when realistically people spend anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes reading posts.

BTW, if you include bot traffic, there is at least one request for 48,501 seconds of the day (we get a lot of bot traffic, and that's even after I blocked Yandex).

Google Analytics is perhaps a slightly better source of information on this, but alas it only breaks down visits by hour:

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However it does also measure session duration, and the average session duration is almost 16 minutes (that's HUGE). If the average session length is 947 seconds according to Google, and there were 803 sessions in total, that means users spent a collective 760,441 seconds on the site yesterday, which is almost 9 days. It's probably reasonable to say that there is always at least one user browsing the site at all times.

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So, what you're saying is...

The sun never sets on the AF Empire!