Traffic from the far east

  • captkirk

    (@captkirk)


    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    We get a lot of traffic (shown by Google analytics) to random events (some several years old) from China, Singapore, etc. I have looked at several of these events and don’t see anything unusual. When I say a lot of traffic, that’s relative since this is a low traffic site!

    Is this something to be concerned about?

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  • joneiseman

    (@joneiseman)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    See the following discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1nv6ofr/so_much_traffic_from_china/

    If you are concerned you could unpublish past events using the following code snippet: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-past-events-or-dont-display-recurring-events-in-the-backend-event-list/#post-18492301

    TreeTrail

    (@aprilschmitt27)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    Or if you want you could purchase something like WordFence Premium ($149/year). Then you can block which ever countries as you want. The overall protection is the very best. The only disadvantage that I’ve found with country blocking, is when you need support from one of those counties. Then you need to ask which one(s) and unblock those countries temporarily.

    Thread Starter captkirk

    (@captkirk)

    5 months, 3 weeks ago

    I guess as long as these aren’t hack attempts, it’s just an annoyance. Looking at the raw logs, almost all of them are directly accessing from the 43.173.173-43.173.182.249 range, from a large variety of IP addresses. Almost 250 in one day from unique IPs in that range. All with the useragent “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.6478.114 Safari/537.36”. And all they are accessing are events manager calendar events only! Very peculiar…

    It is interesting that this increased activity is being reported and discussed elsewhere.

    I guess I could block the range with htaccess if it continues

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