Willkommen
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.
I am grateful that you continue to run the Martin S site especially considering your present troubles. I enjoy the ramble through your members boots as well as through your other links.
Via these I am taken along other trails to other blogs, sites, whatever.
It is a shame that Nourishing Obscurity had his blog blocked, but I still follow his other and newer postings.
Thank you.
You’re welcome!
And you inspired the next post….
Yes, strange peaks in traffic are difficult to comprehend. On my site I seem to consistently get hits from Singapore for some obscure and incomprehensible reason? I doubt that there is a large ex-pat community out there? Peaks from Singapore seem to coincide with a number of reads of older posts. The reasoning is beyond me.
I have also noticed a crash in traffic since I posted a few rants about Israel/ Palestine. Either no one cares (sad, but probably true), or in full tinfoil hat mode, Israeli security are somehow diverting traffic. You could get paranoid trying to fathom it all out, but as the old joke says, ‘just because I’m paranoid, doesn’t mean that they aren’t out to get me!’
Stay safe and warm Grandad.
Normally the only site to get these strange visits is this one. The usual culprits are China, Germany and Singapore. The Chinese peaks can last for several days. Weird….