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Sunday, November 15th, 2026, 4:17 am

Too Many Bots

They’re destroying analytics

About half of this month is over and in HTTP (not HTTPS) it looks like this site is hitting traffic levels I didn’t see before, albeit many of those requests come from useless bots.

Day Number of visits Pages Hits Bandwidth
01 Nov 2026 67,250 71,115 78,707 502.19 MB
02 Nov 2026 64,617 68,787 77,501 394.52 MB
03 Nov 2026 56,940 67,135 71,210 303.55 MB
04 Nov 2026 63,942 73,007 75,719 294.18 MB
05 Nov 2026 70,564 83,787 89,426 481.60 MB
06 Nov 2026 92,319 110,037 131,854 473.89 MB
07 Nov 2026 113,606 133,139 163,708 539.14 MB
08 Nov 2026 58,110 65,899 77,324 591.70 MB
09 Nov 2026 9,914 10,345 13,442 417.63 MB
10 Nov 2026 42,552 51,550 54,617 574.63 MB
11 Nov 2026 83,205 96,297 97,534 1.01 GB
12 Nov 2026 97,952 130,306 134,019 847.80 MB
13 Nov 2026 63,677 73,492 75,020 341.84 MB

In other sites we noticed that about half of the Web traffic is bots. That’s consistent with the average on today’s Web, based on reports from technical firms.

What a mess.

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