How To Stop Bot Traffic
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So, a few days ago, I had a sudden and massive increase in both views and visitors.
My normal traffic is around 20-40 on days I don’t post, and 50-60 when I have a new post. Occasionally, if I post something with wide interest, I might hit 100.
On November 6th, I had 895 views, which I assumed was some bot . . . but, no. I had 843 visitors. The next day, 1,625 visitors and 1,688 views. Today, 490 visitors, 511 views so far.
“What did you post?” you might ask?
Nothing. I’ve been sick, and my last post was on Monday. Plus, they are hitting posts going back years.
Now, it could be that the excellence of my offerings is finally being recognized, and, given my single posts, the large number of views makes sense, however it works out to about 1.06 page views per visitor. So, it’s them damn bots after all!
Except . . .
The vast majority of visits came from China. Specifically, eastern China. Not just one location, but over a wide area. Many, many different locations.
I don’t know what’s going on, and don’t know if I should be worried, but is anyone else experiencing anything like it?
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The sudden traffic surge from China, characterized by a near 1:1 view-to-visitor ratio, is a documented trend involving high-volume AI scraping bots. These bots crawl WordPress sites to index content for Large Language Models and data mining, often targeting older archives. While this activity inflates site statistics and can appear concerning, it is generally non-malicious ‘scraping’ rather than a security breach. To resolve the reporting discrepancy and reduce server load, the recommended solution is to implement a country-level block or enable a ‘Bot Fight Mode’ via a service like Cloudflare or a security plugin. This will filter out automated traffic and restore the accuracy of your site analytics
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