Some of you will know that I have a small stable of websites that I look after.

As part of that, I keep an eye out for traffic to those sites.

In general, traffic remains fairly constant over a period of time. Occasionally someone will post something that sparks an interest such as a business site posting latest financial news, whereupon there will be a wee peak in traffic.

Sometimes however a site comes to the attention of a particular country and traffic will peak. This happens with Rambles where usually it’s the Chinese who take an interest. This morning however it was Martin Scriblerus that hit the headlines.

Traffic to Martin S increased overnight by 1,119.6%. Yup – over a thousand percent. All the traffic was [and continues to arrive] from Germany. I have no idea why or what their interest is. Each visitor is from a different source so it’s not some mischievous kid trying to hack the server or some automated bot. Weird.

Sadly this traffic doesn’t translate into visits to MS sites as the visitors just visit and bugger off again.

I hope they find what they are looking for.