Return of the Russian spiders

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

I checked into my blog stats, and what did I see?
A mess of Russian (and Ukrainian) spiders, lookin' back at me!

The top of the chart's scale, 178, represents activity from Russia for the past week...or really, for the past couple of days. Another 44 hits came via Ukraine. Looking at the past 24 hours:

The 169 hits are again Russian, and another 15 from Ukraine. That spike of 56 hits around 7:00 pm EST, flanked by 15 the hour before and 15 the hour after, is about equal to two good days' activity from all sources, when the spiders are dormant.

Considering the timing, it's a good bet the spiders were sent to gather our thoughts on the political theater going on just now. After all, the Democrats used a Russian-modeled Kangaroo court to hold their "impeachment hearings", and now they are trying to coerce the Senate to do the same. I am thankful that the senior Senators remember the machinations of the Cold War well enough to recognize it for what it is, and take a more honest way (whether it is to be an entirely honest way remains to be seen).

I wonder how much spider activity the really popular blogs have been getting.