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My site went from 68 views to 7800...why?

by DrewBru75
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Honestly warriors I don't know why. I haven't done anything special other than post blog entries and I haven't been able to update it much with content. I'm guessing this was some sort of bot attack or something? Anyone have any clues?
  • Profile picture of the author ChristineCobb
    Look in your Google Analytics account for clues. You can find out how visitors came to your site (search, direct, referral). You can also see which page they landed on. You can also see the countries they came from. And much more. If that happened in one day, change the time range to that one day.

    If you have AW Stats within your hosting account, you can see bot activity. It's a monthly view but you could compare to the previous month.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Google Analytics man.. Google Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrewBru75
    Thanks everyone. I will get with goggles analytic ASAP. Appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Google Analytics won't help you see whats already happend (traffic source), unless you have been running GA before the traffic hit your site.

    You need to be looking at your server logs for your self hosted site, to see the traffic source (that already happend).
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    7800 is not much for a bot attack. Let's see, on one system I could maybe get away with 100 processes. If I ran it myself, maybe 1000. That is for one period. If it were a BOT attack, we MIGHT want long ones, so it could be minutes. Let's say one minute, it would last 78 minutes. That is from ONE machine. If ten, then 7.8 minutes. If 1 hundred, it would be less than a second. Naw, I would think it would be FAR worse if someone were trying to attack you.

    Maybe you forgot something you did. MAYBE, you hit an event elsewhere. MAYBE someone gave you a link. Maybe you were mentioned in the media.

    Who knows! One time my hits went up because anothers log went public, got listed, and had my site in it. NOBODY did anything really, it just HAPPENED!

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  • Profile picture of the author idreesfarooq
    You can also monitor real time visitors status using Statpress plugin and Google analytic is another way to get information for this increasing number.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    If you have Adsense on the site, you better be very careful.
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