you can set how often the site updates number of people online. anyway i have it set to stay updated imidiatly. that is not the case on anyother site i have looked at because it uses up bandwidth. however because people are advertising on the site and looking to advertise i keep the whos online as acurate as possible and not show inflated numbers. you can see though we have well over 3,000 visitors every day which i do not believe many other sites do and those numbers are acuarate also. we are at the top of the search engines in many catagories not just one or 2 and by a big margin compaired to any other sites on the net