Hi, Russian spiders. I'm still watching!

kw: blogging, blogs, spider scanning

The various tools on the Stats page in Blogger just showed me that these 181 hits from Russia all occurred in the 5:00 AM hour. I presume that is Pacific Daylight Time. That would be about 3:00 PM in Moscow and 7:00 PM in Novosibirsk, a more likely source.

If I decide to pay for the more precise analytics I could pinpoint the city, but I'll leave that to others. Considering that this blog has quite low popularity, I wonder whether the same spiders are making a big impact on really popular sites like the Freakonomics guys. Is anyone else out there even checking their stats?