Normality without spider scanning

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

I have this browser set to show Blog Stats when it opens. Preparing to review a book, I noticed that the excessive scanning of past weeks had settled down. At about 9:30 local time (EDT), this blog had 34 views, and 209 the day before. This chart shows progress over the past week:

Expected activity without scanning going on is less than 100 per day, so 209 is "getting normal". Here is the picture for the 24 hours ending at 9am today:

Counting back to reach 34 views I find that the "day" counted by the Blogger software began about 7pm the prior day. That means a five-hour offset. If I understand how time zones work correctly, that places the "zero point" in Hawaii or the Aleutian Islands. Counting the rightmost twelve hours on this chart I find 27 views in 12 hours, or 2.25 views per hour, average, a total of 54 views per day. The figure of 97 a the top of this chart indicates a little excess activity, which ended about 16 hours ago (counting from 10am local time). Here is the world chart for the past 24 hours:

This looks a lot like near-normal activity. If this lull continues, I can get a better handle on "the usual."