Registering weird visitations

citizenschallenge · November 2016

I propose this thread as a place to share and to park weird occurrences at your various blogs.

I bring this up because back in July I had some wild spikes originating out of Russia. I've been keeping an eye on it to see if all my recent posting renews an interest but Russia remains silent. Though this evening I saw something weird - I got 29 visits from www.jordanembassycairo.gov.jo nothing like the 142 I received via HotWhopper.com, thank you very much ;-) and probably innocuous, but still out of the ordinary for sure.

That got me to thinking about starting this post. Not a big deal. But it might be nice for folks to have a place to record weird things. Never know in hindsight what might come of it. (I have sort of an defense offense jujitsu attitude, for instance when someone threatens me, which has only happened a couple times, I will post that threat and confront it that way. so far so good.)

VictorVenema · November 2016

My blog also gets a lot of such peaks. Quite regularly, so I expect that it is not human activity. Maybe it is a service that checks social media for corporations to alert them of scandals.

It is best not to click on such URL links if they do not make sense (do not come from a known climate blog). They could be used for malware.

citizenschallenge · December 2016

Oh that's a good piece of advice. Thank you!

I am in innocent babe in computer land, need all the tips and advice I can get.

citizenschallenge · December 2016

I"ve got another one to ask about. I got hit with a 2,033 spike yesterday.
I've had spikes of many hundreds before but over 2K that's something.
(for perspective my recent average visits is near 500 day)

What I don't understand is in Google Stats - Traffic Sources doesn't show any abnormally high visiting source(s).
Why would that be?
I used to think the spikes of a few hundred made sense, if whatever sampled every post, I'm up to 700 now. But, 2K - what are they doing?

( Maybe tomorrow I'll finally be able to write a little again. )

Sou · December 2016

Some web stats record referrer spam hits, others like Google Analytics filter them out so they don't count them. Here's a good article explaining this:

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2015/05/google-identifies-referer-spam-by.html

citizenschallenge · December 2016

And then there are the weird super spikes. Got my biggest spike yet. While my average has been ~500/day slowly creeping up, guess it's around ~600 now - on 12/2 there was a 2,033 view spike.

What I find weird is that when I look at "traffic sources" and "audience" there's nothing.
Why is that?

Sou · December 2016

Have you enabled Google analytics, CC? That's a more reliable option. There's a bit to do to set it up, but it's very good and has a lot of stats once you get to know it.

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008015?hl=en

citizenschallenge · December 2016

Yeah, I actually signed up with Analytics about a half year ago and have thought about going back there to see what's happening, but other things keep distracting me.
Incidentally, here's an example of that jujitsu I allude to sometimes, taking what they toss at you and making an effective offensive move out of it.
Of course, it's also known as doing the best you can with what you have.

THEY'RE BAAACK. Russian hacks up to their old games.

http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/2016/12/theyre-baaack-russian-hacks-up-to-their.html

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