Brazil spiders go bonkers, leading the world

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning

The stats on this blog went bonkers the past two days, ~20,000 hits yesterday and ~10,000 so far today. Here is the view for the past week, of the places of origin; about 46,000 hits for the whole week:

Sorry for the fuzziness; I had to reduce scale to get everything on one screen. Brazil tops the list, yet it accounts for only 14.4% of the world total. There appear to be numerous AI training exercises going on, via VPN, and I suspect most of them originate in the US and Vietnam.

Using the "Now" selection, here is a shorter list of places:

This is the "hit list" for the past two hours. Prior to AI training and other uses of automated spider scanning, this blog's peak popularity varied between 100-200 views per day, and for most of the past 10 years, 50-100 per day. The minute-by-minute breakdown:

A few of these peaks exceeded 30 views per minute. On average, it's 8-9 per minute. I sure hope somebody is getting value for their effort! I'd like to think that some substantial amount of this activity represents humans actually reading my posts. Yeah, and bees have lips!