This year's spidering has begun

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

I checked in to Blogger this morning to see activity on my latest post. I saw that there has been an upsurge of activity. For this image and the next I set the lookback to 30 days:

As the lower chart shows, the usual daily views rate is about 100. Beginning on February 12, it rose over three days into the thousands. Here is the worldwide distribution:

When I see Singapore in the top spot, I think of a spider elsewhere using a VPN. For Austria and Germany to also exceed the US in activity is interesting. I was curious about what "Other" may be. I set the lookback to 7 days and expanded "Other":

Here we see that 14 countries have two or more views each. There are fewer than 200 countries in the world, so how could "Other" be 339? The map of DNS servers must have domains registered in numerous entities that are not countries. I don't know. It is an interesting mystery. If someone knows, feel free to comment.