Ridiculous amount of pageviews but only few visitors

  • hyumanoido

    (@hyumanoido)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hello!

    I own a small selfhosted website running wordpress since a couple of years now. The number of visitors is usually pretty low and I just recently started posting again. However there have been several times when my Statpress showed a fairly small amount of visitors in contrast to ridiculously many pageviews, just like today (21 visitors <-> over 1800 pageviews).

    Is this to be considered alarming in any form? Are those bots or some kind of hacking attempts?

    website: http://hyumanoido.de/

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    12 years, 4 months ago

    Probably bots like Google scanning harmlessly. Your stat tool should know to omit those.

    Thread Starter hyumanoido

    (@hyumanoido)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    I thought those search engine bots were listed under Spiders (of those I had 33 today)? Or are we talking about two different things?
    It just appears weird to me that for weeks the number of pageviews stays stable and then it suddenly shoots through the roof.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    12 years, 4 months ago

    Some are, some aren’t. If you knew what pages were being hit for page views, though, you’d have a better idea.

    Thread Starter hyumanoido

    (@hyumanoido)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Well, the last few listed were:

    cmd=setquality&var1=1%27.passt…

    /notallowed.htm

    Usually not posts, tags, images or suchlike.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    12 years, 4 months ago

    Ugh. Not bots, script kiddies. If your server has some sort of firewall (I use CSF) then you can try that to block them.

    Thread Starter hyumanoido

    (@hyumanoido)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    I was afraid of that. Okay then, thank you for your help!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    12 years, 4 months ago

    FWIW, if your install is secure and your host is as well, you should be okay.

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