Sunday, December 01, 2019

Spiders taking advantage of our food coma

kw: blogging, spider scanning

A week ago I briefly checked, and saw a sudden, but rather modest, uptick in usage originating in Russia. Here is what I saw today:



Just after I logged off on the 28th, Google Analytics recorded a 160-hit day. Then two days ago, a 200-hit day. At the left end of the chart we see the tail of the small "hit storm" from a week ago, about a tripling of ordinary usage over two days. The 29th and 30th is the current storm of hits from Russia and Ukraine.

It makes me wonder: are there Black Friday shoppers in Russia who use searches general enough that blogs like mine log lots of hits which are incidental? Yeah, let's call it that…this time.

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