Sunday 25 November 2012

Weird Visitor Statistics

Occasionally I check the HiStats statistics. Today it was showing an unheard of, for me anyway, 597 visitors of which 555 are new. Something strange here. Normally I would only see a handful.

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The majority of this large number are shown to have come through goo which appears to be a Google system for shortening URLs and more than a few through gemscool which seems to be connected with an Indonesian games site. All these visits accessed only one page.

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Looking at the geolocations shown most appear to have come from Mountain View in the US (nearly 500).

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I'm not sure whether HiStats is playing silly beggars or what.
A DoS attack on Blogger?

Later:
Jan put me on the right track. Google is located in Mountain View and searching elsewhere showed that Midmarsh Jottings is hosted in Mountain View so I guess it was some internal goings on between the Google search engine and Blogspot. I wonder if anyone else using HiStats has seen a similar occurrance.

8 comments:

  1. That seems odd! I have a feeling Google have their main headquarters at Mountain View so there may be some relevance there.

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    1. You are correct Jan. Also I think Google own Blogger so it must be their own system doing some automatic information gathering - or it's having a nervous breakdown.

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    1. It was strange, Roy, to get so many for whatever reason.

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  3. I get a few from Mountain View, about 5 or so a day.

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Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John

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