Something weird’s going on with the stats for this site. The hits on this page are normal, lower than last week even, but the hits for the site as a whole are already higher than last month and I’ve used a quarter of my bandwidth allowance. Normally I use about 3% in a month. I noticed some comments being posted to the Trebus page but that’s only had 63 hits this month. The mp3s in the library have only had 6 downloads so far. Nothing else, like the webcam, is obviously attracting attention and there’s nothing odd about the referrers. It’s got me well confused. Anyone shed light on my bemusement?
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
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Pete Ashton
It’s happening on my (work) site, too. Usually this means elevated virus activity, but the pattern doesn’t look quite right for that. Funny. Looks like something’s been bashing away at my forms. Didn’t get anywhere, because you’d need a password, but …
… I suppose it could be that someone’s been sending out a load of those automated comment adders, you know, the ones that add marketing messages as comments to your site? Even if they fail to post, they’d still (I think) be taking up bandwidth for the period of time they’re trying to deliver the payload.
It’s a possibility.
Bastards knocking at my door but they won’t get it. I wonder if it’s worth telling my host about it? It’s using up a lot of bandwidth and if it increases…
It’s not the xml rss feeds on your site is it? News aggregators like NetNewsWire download the xml files every 15min or so it can up your traffic quite alot.
I’ve noticed the raw traffic on my blog go up considerably since starting an rss feed. I guess it becomes a major prob if your blog gets really heavy traffic…
I wondered about that too – FeedReader (and it seems many other readers) default to re-reading every 15 minutes, which is far, far to often. FeedReader won’t even let you check less often than every hour.
Syndirella defaults to a much more reasonable 1 hour refresh.
For most sites, I think twice a day is more than enough. Ah, in an ideal world aggregators would automagically adjust their refresh rates based on just how often things do really change …
I don’t think it’s RSS feeds. The stats report for modwest (the hoster) lists the most accessed pages regardless of their size and the XML files are not up there. The only file with any significant number of hits is the main index, which is to be expected.