Heaviest spidering hit yet

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

A couple of days ago I reported a sufficient number of hits on my blog, over just two days, to download the whole thing. Apparently the incident wasn't even half over. Here is the world view for the past week:

That's 4,897 hits for the USA. The total for the rest of the world is 97, which makes 4,994 overall. Since a typical week without spider activity totals about 300 hits, about 4,700 hits are anomalous.

As it happens, Google Stats notes about 4,700 hits from Safari on a Mac. So again I suspect a single agent on a single machine, but why there are more than twice as many hits on my blog as there are blog pages is mystifying.