OK, here's another graph to go with last time's: this is hourly data at the peak of the recent surge.
- That steady 6k per hour was absolutely typical of several peak days in a row;
- The within-day spread of "locations" from which those hits came was very much as per the table I posted last time.
Given how egregiously high that "readership" was, it speaks to me of both a (prolonged) automated web-crawling episode AND one that deliberately uses "readers" spread across all those locations in a coordinated manner. In other words, taken as a totality, it's a single "visit".
(It's subsided now, although only to daily levels that would have been rare in earlier years. This being the case, my decision not to bother trying to harness the surge for ad revenues has not troubled me.)
You gotta admit, all this is somewhat interesting! So I shall still be looking for an authoritative explanation.
ND
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*Inserts meme*
I'm not saying it's Aliens..................But it's Aliens.......
Can you see the User-Agent that is being sent - might provide some clues as to the source.
Not from Blog Stats. However, one thing does stand out: 91% are using Chrome. (Edge & Safari 3% each; Firefox 2%. Nothing remarkable about OS used.)
What does that tell us?
User Agent won't give much away - if you're writing a custom crawler you'd be an idiot to provide a custom UA as it'd be a simple rule to block.
Could be a new DDoS botnet being taken through its paces, or just something more innocent like Cloudflare caching sites.
CH
RIP Norman Tebbit.
OT - a company called Rainmaker Technology Corporation was cloud seeding over Hunt, TX, on July 2nd.
https://xcancel.com/ADoricko/status/1941628117535293764#m
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