I was using search engine friendly urls with 6.72 as well - with no problems - so I would say that search engines are not hitting my site more now. The logs also do not show any noticiable increase. The 40 pageviews per visitor does not include search engine spiders. It seems to me that there may be something else at work here.
I was checking my "recent visitors" log once a week or so ago and I accidentally clicked on a url in it (I am using a Firefox plugin that lets me do that) - immediatedly windows started opening like crazy and I had to shut down my computer to stop it. At the same time, the server hosting my site crashed so I am thinking the two events are related.
Could there be something that causes the server to load a page several times - which may explain the sudden increase to 40 pageviews per visit? The 40 pageviews is an average so if there was a single event that caused a page to reload thousands of times (and crash the server)it may average out to 40 pageviews per visitor.
The host had said that it was the file ubbthreads.php that was being hit many times per second - reloaded perhaps just like when I clicked on that link in the recent visitors log?
No one has had a similar experience?
