If you’re just “some blogger” and have noticed surprising surges in the number of visits recorded in your stats, the explanation is almost certainly bot traffic. Bots make me think of the questions that desperate earthlings ask about visitors from outer space: Why are they here? And what do they want from us?
An article from Wired offers some answers: “A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web.”
Statcounter is doing an admirable job of keeping visits from bots out of my stats. Most of my bot traffic has been coming from Singapore. Today it’s from Poland. Several weeks ago, it was from countries all over the globe. Was that a coordinated effort? Who knows. As long as the visits don’t get counted, I’m fine. (I hope.) If I were paying to host Orange Crate Art or trying to make money from advertising, I’d have a much greater problem with the bots.
Friday, February 13, 2026
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I'm seeing this behaviour too. Like yourself I'm seeing a lot of traffic from Singapore, but also Vietnam.
Same here (says some blogger): yesterday from Singapore, today from Poland, tomorrow... who knows?
(The Shadow knows!)
Ya, I too was getting visits from all around the world. Now I'm getting a few usual suspects and lots from the good old US of A.
For the US, my statistics counter shows lots of visits, but only a fews views of specific places such as home page. I guess the few views are from people, while the shapeless visits are bots.
As for us all getting the same spam at once, I am reminded of when two radio announcers in my city said we were all getting the foghorn spam for a cruise line on our telephones.
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