Brazil continues to top the spider races

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training

The past two days this blog's activity has been in the range of 20,000 views daily. Spiders continue to run rampant. As the chart below shows, Brazil tops the list, with 15% of the total.

First, it's interesting to see the daily totals in the first graph. Between a day with ~20k and the past two days at the same level we see a few days in the 5,000 range. This seems to be the new normal, even though actual readers of the articles being "viewed" probably amount to about 100 per day.

The worldwide breakdown is interesting. While the US is second with 6% of total views for the week, quite a variety of countries are represented with at least a couple of percent each. Also, "Other" is still more than half the total, to be divvied up among the other 180 or so countries of the world.

I had read that Brazil has become a hotbed of AI training. This supports that. I suspect many of the seemingly offbeat countries in the mix are actually cases of VPN attribution, with origins mainly in the US and Brazil.