Any tech bods out there…..consistently from early June the traffic logging in to Going Gently everyday has increased from 200,000 hits a month to over 500,000 ( 6-7 thousand a day to over 18)
There must be a practical and computer based reason for this hike.
The last increase was a 100,000 hike when my husband and I split in July 2018
Or a big fat moth
ReplyDeleteSimilar issues here - though my numbers are not as high. Still thousands each day - and none of them leave comments.
ReplyDeleteAh good , it’s a computer glitch
ReplyDeleteA lady with a computer somewhere abroad calls my house phone - I wonder if it is something similar x
ReplyDeleteMad as a box of frogs
DeleteWhatever the true number, it's clearly up. Better up than down. And showing you on the up. Which nicely squares the circle, I'd say!
DeleteI had to look at my All Time stats before I could see it like that...it is weird. Bots?
ReplyDeleteI am up 150% from the prior month, I suspect bots
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense
DeleteIt must be bots. At a discussion group I belong to there are only 10 members yet the #s are so high. I questioned the owner of the group and she had looked into it and said it was bots.
ReplyDeleteI do visit your blog several times a day but nothing significant lol.
I took a look at my stats and yes, they jumped enormously too. BOTS!
ReplyDeleteWell, who's a popular lad, then? Your fame (or notoriety) is spreading. xx
ReplyDeleteInteresting, I shut down my blog, said goodbye in Feb. I still get 300 views a month. Kind of odd.
ReplyDeletePutin and his army are coming.
ReplyDeleteOhhh
ReplyDeleteMine are not that high. But it says I had 979 people looking at my blog and got 23 comments.... But I blame bots too.
Now that Vlad is cowering somewhere in Moscow they need to get to work.
XOXO
bots or nots........ LOL! I visit you daily and have for many years. Who knows? Hope it's not something sinister
ReplyDeleteSusan M
I'm afraid that I take all the stats 'cum grano salis'. They make no sense. Just look where all the visits come from!
ReplyDeleteI think that was me!
ReplyDeleteAm wondering what the purpose might be it it is bots. Curious.
ReplyDeleteI noticed on YouTube this month that some creators have been commenting that views are way up but yet subscriber numbers have remained low. One creator commented just a few hours ago that if only 10% would subscribe it would be a whole new ballgame for him. My spam box has been getting 2-3000 entries a day for over a month now. It has to be an "attack of the bots". However, John you are a fantastic blogger and deserve all the "legit" visits you get.
ReplyDeleteIt’s because we love your wit and humour Sandy, mid wales
ReplyDeleteI believe that most "visits" to most blogs are robotic systems scouring the net automatically, for both legitimate and nefarious reasons, and a vast jump like that is likely due to that type of thing. You clearly do have quite a few human visitors though.
ReplyDeleteNothing less than a monarch butterfly. Yeah, likely bots. I had 10,000 hits 2 months in a row. All with Russian IPs.
ReplyDeleteYour stats have been infiltrated by Russia.
ReplyDeleteI see Andrew R. Scott made a similar point above...
DeleteFucking putin
DeleteCareful now John, he's reading...
DeleteWaves gayly
Delete2 comments of mine (possibly 3 now) have been spammed.
ReplyDeleteJust found them , how odd
DeleteEasily explained - it's Flis.
ReplyDeleteGood day to you💃
DeleteWell hello! Good day to you too. Are you having a good one?
DeleteWell hello! Good day to you too. Are you having a good one?
ReplyDeleteI read your blog daily look forward to reading about life in your village. As I live in a busy town. I rearly comment perhaps others are the same.
ReplyDeleteIrene