Weird numbers

  • Resolved aletarius

    (@aletarius)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi.

    I’ve been using the plugin for approximetaly a month and a half on my website and it appeared to work fine. We saw a gradual increase in our visits as we released new content and did extra marketing on the side.

    The other day it showed 40,000 hits which is great. I went home that same night and it appeared to have adjusted to 19,000. I checked today and now it’s reporting 500,000+ which seems a bit ridiculous.

    Can someone help me with resolving this so that I can ensure I’m getting proper statistics since I need to provide reports for a school project.

    Thank you.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-statistics/

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  • Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    WP Statistics never removes data unless you’ve configured the database maintenance. You may be getting hit by a DDoS attack, is the spike all being recorded today?

    Thread Starter aletarius

    (@aletarius)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    It hit 40k over about a month. Today alone we got 500k.

    Does it resolve itself eventually or no?

    Plugin Contributor Greg Ross

    (@gregross)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Yep, sounds like your getting hit. You should let your service provider know and they can probably block it for you.

    Afterwords you can clean up the most egregious numbers in the database manually.

    DDoS attacks usually wane after a few hours but it depends on what the point of the attack is. If your on shared hosting you’re probably not even the target.

    Thread Starter aletarius

    (@aletarius)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Ah alright.

    Thanks!

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