How does the program determine number of visitors?

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How does the program determine number of visitors?
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The program determines the number of visitors by the IP addresses. If a request from an IP address came after some time (timeout) since the last request from this IP, it is considered to belong to a different visitor. The timeout is set to 30 minutes by default but you can change this value in the program options, "Analysis | General" category. Requests from spiders aren't used to determine visitors unless the "Count spiders as visitors" option is enabled.
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Mark Hanley
So just to confirm, this means that multiple users coming from a single IP (like users behind a router) would all appear as a single visitor?
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So just to confirm, this means that multiple users coming from a single IP (like users behind a router) would all appear as a single visitor?
Yes, unless time between their visits is more that the timeout value (30 minutes by default).