Interesting stuff… so the measures I put in place seem to have calmed the bandwidth issues but the number of visitors is still ridiculously high (this is just incsub.org btw… not edublogs) although awstats thinks they are individuals… don’t see how I can suddenly have picked up an extra 2000 uniques a day though, wonder what’s up?
(BTW yellow are number of visits, dark blue is pages, light blue is hits, and green is bandwidth.. peak visits are 6177, peak pages 37299 (!), peak hits 43339 and peak bandwidth 1.26 Gig)
One thing that may have happened is that as a result of the explosion of edublogs.org, your incsub.org’s google ranking may have risen. That will drive more traffic, as you bubble higher in search results you get more folks coming to your site… Check your referrers to see if Google is sending a large number of people your way…
Hmmmm, Google hits are about the same as last month (around 5000) but the Googlebot & MSNbot bandwidth has gone out of control… last month:
Inktomi Slurp 33744 659.24 MB 31 Jul 2005 – 23:59
MSNBot 33726 492.44 MB 31 Jul 2005 – 23:58
Googlebot 16550 341.38 MB 31 Jul 2005 – 23:55
this month:
Googlebot 230149 8.09 GB 27 Aug 2005 – 01:16
MSNBot 161605 1014.92 MB 27 Aug 2005 – 01:19
Inktomi Slurp 37897 733.14 MB 27 Aug 2005 – 01:20
edublogs.org is hosted under the same IP… could that be making a difference?
Yeah… wasn’t meaning hits by the bots, although that could go up a bit, too… Look in the referrer section to see if more actual people are being referred by Google searches etc…
nope, still the same, 4700 odd this month and 5000 last month… no jump… maybe things’ll jump next month after 8 gig of searching!!!
In my case, I had a huge spike (tenfold), but it was attempted trackback spam and comment spam. I have noticed a significant increase from Yahoo!Slurp though.
Ahhhh… interesting, did they come through like the above as recorded uniques?
Yes, all (most?) were shown as unique, because the spam comes from multiple IP addresses.