Unusual Forum Activity

[bigballofyarn]

Forum URL: bigballofyarn.proboards.com

Is there any way of knowing what happened within the last 10 hours? Please see the attached image. I believe this happened once before and you were unable to determine the referral or origin. If that is still the case, no problem.

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[Scott]

bigballofyarn, based on what data we have it looks like bots, most likely indexing.

[bigballofyarn]

As long as it is nothing sinister, that works for me.

Thanks for your help.

[vank]

You check guest IP

[Former Member]

You might want to try this plugin.

www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/116

[bigballofyarn]

May 17, 2022 17:45:27 GMT -8 @burkeknight said:

You might want to try this plugin.

www.proboards.com/library/plugins/item/116

I don't think that shows me guest IP addresses from time periods when I wasn't online. Or does it? I also don't think I could manually check 248,000 guests haha.

May 17, 2022 17:13:44 GMT -8 vank said:

You check guest IP

Too bad the area for "X guests within 24 hours" isn't clickable like the # of guests who are currently viewing the forum.

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Scott ,

Can I request that as a feature, or would that violate a guest's privacy?

[Scott]

May 18, 2022 1:37:47 GMT -8 bigballofyarn said:

May 17, 2022 17:13:44 GMT -8 vank said:

You check guest IP

Too bad the area for "X guests within 24 hours" isn't clickable like the # of guests who are currently viewing the forum.

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Scott ,

Can I request that as a feature, or would that violate a guest's privacy?

bigballofyarn - I'll mark this as a feature request.

[lp19]

May 17, 2022 10:09:45 GMT -8 Scott said:

bigballofyarn , based on what data we have it looks like bots, most likely indexing.

That is a lot of indexing though Are those numbers possible? Asking because it can be relevant to my own site.

[Scott]

lp19, it's possible, depending on the size of the forum and amount of available content.

[bigballofyarn]

lp19 ,

It's interesting considering the very limited amount of content that I have available to guests. If my forum were completely left open, I imagine that # could have been over a million the other night.

[bigballofyarn]

It has since continued to happen every night after I go to bed. This is not an emergency, but when you get a chance, please confirm that your previous answer is still accurate.

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[Scott]

bigballofyarn - I agree, based on the new numbers something seems amiss. I'll ask our systems team to investigate.

[lp19]

May 18, 2022 6:16:43 GMT -8 Scott said:

lp19 , it's possible, depending on the size of the forum and amount of available content.

Yeah, that's the part that's strange. For a year I have a dailynumber between 4 en 10000 pageviews. The content did not change and I do not have so many members to justify 750 k pageviews in a day. 

I don't know what is going on. All I see it is very concentrated over a certain timeslot. Like in 1 hour those numbers shoot up and then it stops again, back to normal. except with 750 000 forumrequests and pageviews.