Do all fansites fake their statistics?

[Joseei]

Think its quite common. I know thishabbo and hffm have both faked their listeners, because a friend who djed there sent me the shoutcast statistics.

If you knew anything, HFFM don't fake their listeners. It's called CloudFlare, it messes with the unique listeners.

[Zak]

There's also hidden members you can't see as well as spiders from search engines.

This.

Google is almost always active on my forum.

[GoldenMerc]

If you knew anything, HFFM don't fake their listeners. It's called CloudFlare, it messes with the unique listeners.

Think you'll find it doesn't thats absolute rubbish.

[Joseei]

Think you'll find it doesn't thats absolute rubbish.

No, it really isn't.

[Accipiter]

To my understanding HFFM doesn't fake its statistics, not on the forum, radio or site.

We legitimately get 3000 posts in one day on good days.

[Red]

No, it really isn't.

The dj told me they did and sent the shoutcast admin... lmao @Accipiter; This was long before tryhabbo merged with hffm and it was just the radio statistics.

[Accipiter]

The dj told me they did and sent the shoutcast admin... lmao @Accipiter; This was long before tryhabbo merged with hffm and it was just the radio statistics.

Since we've merged I don't believe they've had any reason to fake statistics, we have some fab dj's like bot (ross) who causes such a good audience

[Martin]

The only way Habbox 'fakes' stats, although its not really faking at all, is that some users stay permanently on the online list even when they are not online due to a bug which I think is to do with tapatalk keeping them logged in like at 5am in the morning there are quite a few people on the online list that logged off hours ago/yesterday etc I don't think its fixable though unfortunately

[GoldenMerc]

The only way Habbox 'fakes' stats, although its not really faking at all, is that some users stay permanently on the online list even when they are not online due to a bug which I think is to do with tapatalk keeping them logged in like at 5am in the morning there are quite a few people on the online list that logged off hours ago/yesterday etc I don't think its fixable though unfortunately

Thats a bug tapatalk's end, thus will be thousands of sites having same problem

[tm]

At habbos.net/habboing.com we used to extend the users online 'timeout' to slightly improve online numbers during quiet times. I'm 100% sure other websites are doing the same and even just faking stats. This is something that actually happens on websites for RL businesses across the world.