American spiders now?

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

In recent weeks the number of daily views of this blog settled back to fewer than 100, typically 70-80. Today I noticed a big bump. Checking the 24-hour view, I see that whatever is going on is continuing:

It's about 10pm just now. Things started taking off at 4am. Here are the locations:

The top source is the US! How about that!! For the past year or so, when views skyrocketed, either Singapore or Hong Kong led the charge. Not this time. I wonder if the spider source is using a VPN…