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From: Nigel Wade <nmw@le.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:57:03 +0000
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On 24/01/12 23:17, Roedy Green wrote:
> I graphed the hits on my home page and discovered a steady reliable
> pattern.  The hits come in two big peaks, one a 6 AM and one at 3PM
> PST with one smaller one at 11:15 AM.  This pattern repeats on
> weekdays and weekends.
>
> I expected some sort of bell shaped curve.  I have been trying to find
> a hypothesis that would explain this.  I thought perhaps the 6AM spike
> might be people in the eastern time zone coming into work and just
> checking out the site. But if that were true, you would see a similar
> spike for the other time zones.
>
> If it is some sort of DOS attack, it seems pretty half-hearted.
>
> I don't really need to know this.  It just puzzles me.  If it bugs me
> enough perhaps analysing the IPs of individual hits might explain what
> is happening.

Webcrawlers. Do the IPs belong to search engines?

-- 
Nigel Wade