I don’t check my blog stats very often, but recently got a notification from WordPress that my stats were “booming!” Really? I took a stroll over to the stats page and was astonished to see that indeed, I was getting a lot of traffic. Way more than I would expect to see, in fact. On one particular day I had gotten 239 views!
Then I went to the map to see where all these views were coming from. As it turned out 230 of them were from…China. And nine views were from the USA. It all makes sense now! On that day, 230 random Chinese people took an interest in my blog post. Or should I say, 230 random bots took an interest.
I want to thank the nine of you real people that read my blog post that day.
In other numbers of interest, I am still sending around 20-30 Asian beetles every day to the vacuum graveyard. It’s quite a fun hobby – you should try it! I’ll almost be sad when they’re all gone…NOT. I’m actually starting to wonder if there’s an unending supply of them, no matter how cold it gets outside. And if they are coalescing somewhere to plan revenge on me for the deaths of their brethren. If I suddenly drop off of my blog posts completely, you’ll know why. “Revenge of the Asian Beetles.”
Good night!
Bots have taken over the production of this blog – the original writer has met with an Asian Beetle incident. The bots will capably and soullessly delete this in the morning.
Welcome to having your blog scraped by bots, Chinese and otherwise. 😢 We’ve been fighting them since late last year and, despite using CloudFlare, can’t say we’re winning. Unfortunately, they are a lot harder to get rid of than Asian beetles! 🪲
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