Spiders & Online Record..
 

The spiders won't be counted toward the record #'s of people online. The 214 people on December 24th was probably 80% google/yahoo doing their month-end spidering of the site.

Example:
If we have this scenario:
100 users: 60 members, 25 guests, 15 spiders.
It will compare 85 to our current record (currently 219).

Re: Spiders & Online Record..
 

Since the current record was 'fake' (spiders took up 70% of it, most likely) I've reset the record. Note the example I cited earlier if anything seems fishy.