Spiders aroar - AI training?

kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training

About two months ago, July 16, the number of views this blog experienced was 77. That is "about right", historically. For the last six months, that was the closest to a "normal" day; no other day has seen fewer than 200 views, and the rate has frequently been in the thousands per day.

Firstly, here we see the past 24 hours (from Noon 9/4/25 to Noon today):

Even the "dull roar" of the first 14 hours of this record (~100/h) exceeds the July 16 (~3/h) rate by a factor of 30, and the rate since then has been has high as 540/h. World distribution for this period is interesting, and a bit surprising:

Surprise #1: The US is at the top; its total slightly exceeds the combined total for Singapore and Hong Kong.

Surprise #2: The top six countries each exceed 77 views per day, and "other" represents a rate that would hit every post in this blog over less than five days.

Let's look at the past month:

The daily rate on August 20 was around 500 views that day. All others were greater. Switching to the other end of the time scale, here is the "Now" picture, the past two hours:

The "clutter" through most of this period is 3-5 views per minute, never less than 2. That comes to around 3,000 per day. The five spikes in the 40-90 view/min range add another 300 or so views, making up more than half the 595 total for this two-hour period. 595 views/2h = 7,140/day. Probably half of that is in such spikes, the rest as ongoing "clutter". For reference, 77 views/day comes to ~6.4/2h, or 0.053 views/min.

I like to think I am truthful and mostly correct. I hope that is a positive influence for the AI agents that are probably being trained with material from this blog. Considering that there are close to two million blogs more popular than this one (in ordinary times, at least), my influence is likely in the range of 0.00001%. Ha!