Thanks Geoff, I thought that may be something to do with it. It was the time that statistic was triggered that was funny . I did consider bots but wondered why they were not identified as such. Then it dawned on me that they are only identified as bots at the time your viewing ..
The following screen grab was taken just before I logged on at about 7.35 am
Then this just after logging in
Where the programme then identified me and a Bing bot
Of course, I now realise does not identify how many of the 138 users on that night were bots .
As I mentioned on a previous thread my thread which I innocently titled “Swinging, swinging keel “ as in to indicate my swinging keel was now swinging free with a broken pull cord, generated a lot of traffic

lol so clearly search terms of a certain nature generate a lot of bots which in turn generate a lot of visitors, although in that particular case probably a lot of disappointment
We must test this out with a thread titled “FREE BEER”
Most, if not all, of my business and recreational net use these days is on my iPad, which tends to log me off automatically after I’m in another tab after a while, must check my settings.