Measuring user on IIS

We have a public facing website that I want to measure the number of users
hitting each IIS server. I have looked at Current Connections for the
specific website and the number seems much lower than I would expect (10
instead of 100's).

My understanding is that Current Connections is the number of open
connections to that IIS server (based by IP address). Is this the correct
stat to look at to get the
actual realtime number of users hitting the web server? Is there a better
counter that I should be using?

Thanks for the information.

Hello,

If you consider a connection to be a "user", then yes, that is what you
should look at. I would probably use this performance counter to measure
the number of "physical" users.

I cannot explain why you see must less connections than you expect. I have
never noticed that this would be wrong. Perhaps your expections are not
correct?

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Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert
http://www.gafvert.info/iis/ - IIS Related Info


Joe wrote:

>We have a public facing website that I want to measure the number of users
>hitting each IIS server. I have looked at Current Connections for the
>specific website and the number seems much lower than I would expect (10
>instead of 100's).
>
>My understanding is that Current Connections is the number of open
>connections to that IIS server (based by IP address). Is this the correct
>stat to look at to get the
>actual realtime number of users hitting the web server? Is there a better
>counter that I should be using?
>
>Thanks for the information.