Spiders of Brazil and US now neck-and-neck

 kw: blogs, blogging, spider scanning, AI training

Before Noon today (5/13) I checked the stats and saw that today and the previous four days the activity has been 20,000 or greater. The first chart (second image) shows the hits over the 24 hours up until about Noon today. The world stats, seen in the third image, show that between about 8am and 10am, Brazil and the US were a close 1-2.

Earlier posts on this subject showed spider cartoons that were generated by Gemini. I couldn't induce it to produce an image I liked this time; this image is from Leonardo AI using the Recraft V4 engine.

A day contains 1,440 minutes; 20,000 views are on average nearly 14 per minute. At a 30,000 rate, nearly 21. But this chart shows that on an hourly scale, the rate is not very regular.

Focusing on two hours (which I did first), we see the country breakdown in that short interval.

This is notable for a missing country: China. It might be among "other", which comprises 64% of the data, but I think not. China has recently cracked down severely on external access by its citizens, and is not accessible via VPN…not that anyone from a free country would be willing to try to use the Internet from "inside" China. 

Considering that this blog has a little less than 3,000 posts, any location running at a rate of 125 views per hour, and spreading their views around, would be downloading the entire blog each 24 hours. Brazil, with 191 views in two hours, is apparently snarfing up the whole thing about every 30 to 31 hours.

As I've said before, I hope these folks are getting value for their effort.