Singapore spiders, and others

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

The past few days I've noticed a big increase in views of this blog. It has been a while since the last flurry of spider scanning. Here is what the past month looks like:

The usual daily activity is 30-40 views; about 1,000 per month. Let's look at the past week (Blogger doesn't have a custom date setting):

Matters get a little more clear when we look at the sources:

In the past the primary spider source was Russia, sometimes Ukraine. This time it is Singapore, with supporting roles from Hong Kong and China. If you add these numbers, leaving out those three countries, then add back in 45 for China and 90 for Hong Kong, you get a usual month of views for this blog. In a typical month, China may have 1-2 views daily and Hong Kong 2-4. Singapore is a rare "customer".

I wonder what they were looking for? The total blog has roughly 2,500 posts…