[NetBehaviour] What's going on with my website? - any ideas?

[James Morris]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:01:43 +0000
James Morris <james at jwm-art.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:01:48 -0500 (EST)
> Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Looked up my web stats - most hits from Poland and China? Does this
> > happen to you? Any idea what's going on? This is the
> > http://www.alansondheim.org/
> > 
> > Thanks, Alan
> 
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> It has been a while since I bothered looking at my web stats. Mainly
> because I had to set them up myself and it didn't seem to work very
> well.
> 
> But yes I do recall getting a lot of hits from certain... I remember
> domains figuring more than countries (though I don't recall specific
> names).
> 
> I'd always do a search for the domains and/or ip addresses. If you can
> take a look to see if it's just one or two IP addresses taking up the
> bandwidth, and check if they're taking you close to your hosting
> providers bandwidth limit.

I'd do a search  and sometimes it would reveal the domain was some
chinese media service or something. When I felt they were taking the
piss with frequency of access I'd block them (I guess compare with
accepted-as-well-behaved spider/bots).



> 
> Ask your web host provider to block them if you either don't know how
> or don't have enough access (I can't remember offhand, with apache but
> it's fairly straightforward).
> 
> James.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > What's going on with my website?
> > 
> > 
> > Poland? China? Russia? Greatest number of hits from China and
> > Poland. What's going on with my website?
> > 
> > country / country domain / pages / hits / bandwidth
> > 
> >  	United States	us	613	3,328
> > 31.21 GB
> > 
> >  	Ukraine	ua	103	129	78.30 MB
> > 
> >  	Great Britain	gb	63	225	6.78 GB
> > 
> >  	Germany	de	52	301	3.61 GB
> > 
> >  	Russian Federation	ru	31	171
> > 107.27 MB
> > 
> >  	China	cn	26	43,652	91.10 GB
> > 
> >  	Romania	ro	25	363	2.74 GB
> > 
> >  	Spain	es	23	125	1.48 GB
> > 
> >  	Italy	it	23	54	288.62 MB
> > 
> >  	France	fr	16	72	2.30 GB
> > 
> >  	Netherlands	nl	14	64	1.32 GB
> > 
> >  	Japan	jp	13	39	985.07 MB
> > 
> >  	Canada	ca	11	85	2.18 GB
> > 
> >  	Brazil	br	10	107	2.38 GB
> > 
> >  	European country	eu	8	663	13.78
> > GB
> > 
> >  	Czech Republic	cz	7	25	48.67 MB
> > 
> >  	Poland	pl	6	29,587	144.28 GB
> > 
> >  	Taiwan	tw	4	19	84.34 MB
> > 
> >  	South Korea	kr	4	25	482.61 MB
> > 
> >  	India	in	4	55	519.91 MB
> > 
> >  	Portugal	pt	3	17	805.50 MB
> > 
> >  	Israel	il	3	14	256.70 MB
> > 
> >  	Hong Kong	hk	3	38	112.75 MB
> > 
> >  	Turkey	tr	2	15	55.70 MB
> > 
> >  	Denmark	dk	2	4	180.78 MB
> > 
> >   	Others	33	770	106.57 GB
> > 
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