Title: Strange statistics
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Strange statistics

 *  [Fritext](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fritext/)
 * (@fritext)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/)
 * I use WordPress 4.0.1 running Twenty Twelve theme and WP Statistics Version 8.4.
   A few weeks ago something strange happened. The number of visits rised steeply
   during a few days and peaked at more than 67.000 visits instead of the usual 
   450, But still the statistic tool counted the usual amount of visitors.
 * Today suddenly the visitors have gone up, from the usual 250 to more than 800.
   The visits they generate are more than 2800 which also is rather much. They come
   from all over the world, normaly my visitors come from Sweden as it is a swedish
   site.
 * The strangest thing though is that I cant se any rise of visits to any particular
   pages. All theese people are just passing invisibly through my pages. Can anyone
   explain this to me?

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 *  [Matt Knowles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aestheticdesign/)
 * (@aestheticdesign)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/#post-5530056)
 * Take a look at your server’s log files. They will show you the detail to figure
   out what’s going on. It might be hackers trying brute force attacks, DOS attempts,
   or search engines robots misbehaving.
 * If they’re hitting resources that aren’t counted in the WP Statistics tool, that
   would account for the difference.
 *  Thread Starter [Fritext](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fritext/)
 * (@fritext)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/#post-5530057)
 * Thank you Matt
 * I am not so good at the inside of computing. I will take your advice and write
   a mail to the people that supply my web connection. I will let you know what 
   they say.
 * Staffan
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/#post-5530137)
 * Once you take the conversation off the forums I might as well close the thread.
   If you can’t share things publicly then you’re in the wrong place to ask for 
   help/ provide support.
 *  Thread Starter [Fritext](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fritext/)
 * (@fritext)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/#post-5530138)
 * I wrote to my internet supplier but they answered rather rudely:
    “We do not 
   provide support for installed software on VPS, but we can investigate and fix
   on 850 SEK/hour rate.” That is about 100 USD per hour. I answered that I would
   not pay and that their calm attitude assured me that no imediate threat was at
   hand. I really can´t see anything dangerous happen. My site [http://www.fritext.se](http://www.fritext.se)
   contains a somewhat highbrow left wing cultural blogg, swedish poetry, pics and
   music. Who would hijack that?
 * But just now I got an mail from the WP forum:
 * “Andrew wrote:
 * Once you take the conversation off the forums I might as well close the thread.
   If you can’t share things publicly then you’re in the wrong place to ask for 
   help/ provide support.”
 * Ooops, what did I do wrong?
    Staffan
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-statistics/#post-5530139)
 * Sorry I was under the impression that the conversation was about to go private
   between you and Matt Knowles via Email.

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