Unexplained 217K visits to my website. HOW?

1•ClaudeGustav2•1h ago

I was checking my stats and I saw 217K direct visits to my site between 11am and 19:00. I don't get that in a year normally. Can anyone help me understand how this can happen.

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not_your_vase•1h ago

Rouge (buggy) bot, (D)DoS attack (maybe intentional, maybe accidental). Maybe you are reading the numbers wrong. Maybe you or your website became very popular.

Check your access logs.

Bender•41m ago

Without sharing access logs people would just be guessing. Even with logs there may be some guessing depending on what information is logged.

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