[_Clifton_]

I haven't played AR in a long time, but I vote pretty often still because I love the game. I'd bet there are a few other people like me. That website you linked, it seems pretty unreliable. Beyond not giving any details on how the data is parsed or who runs it (I'm guessing you?), the data itself is incomplete and unreliable.

From the "who" command.

Whereas what your website is saying is that the peak is "7". Like Davairus mentioned before, AR is an active PK mud without an AFK function. If you are AFK, you get voided out and disconnected. Unless there's constant observation, the website is going to completely mess up the player count.