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| Started by | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
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| First post | 2012-01-24 15:17 -0800 |
| Last post | 2012-01-30 20:41 -0800 |
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O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-24 15:17 -0800
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2012-01-24 20:12 -0400
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-25 02:17 -0800
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Nigel Wade <nmw@le.ac.uk> - 2012-01-25 11:57 +0000
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-25 11:10 -0800
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-25 13:28 -0800
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-25 15:21 -0800
Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:41 -0800
| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
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| Date | 2012-01-24 15:17 -0800 |
| Subject | O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution |
| Message-ID | <9heuh7h2msinuqg1jmuggfltnrrfnb8vqd@4ax.com> |
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. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is "If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".
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| From | Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> |
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| Date | 2012-01-24 20:12 -0400 |
| Message-ID | <pNHTq.6680$5r2.624@newsfe11.iad> |
| In reply to | #1529 |
On 12-01-24 07:17 PM, 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. [ SNIP ] You've just now sussed out the daily habits of your fan. AHS -- ...wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government... -- Thomas Jefferson, 1789
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| From | Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> |
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| Date | 2012-01-25 02:17 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <09510520-3ed1-4381-8cf3-1b2f48276ca4@m2g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #1529 |
On Jan 24, 11:17 pm, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid> 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. Maybe someone mirroring your site (using wget or similar)? Without looking at the IPs or user-agents it's difficult to guess.
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| From | Nigel Wade <nmw@le.ac.uk> |
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| Date | 2012-01-25 11:57 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <9oa90rFprtU1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #1529 |
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
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| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
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| Date | 2012-01-25 11:10 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <lak0i711nhrgdqmucb1oq3e9g7pik8vqd2@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1532 |
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:57:03 +0000, Nigel Wade <nmw@le.ac.uk> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Webcrawlers. Do the IPs belong to search engines? I don't have alist of the ips. There is another anomaly. Usually every December traffic drops off. This year it started to climb and now it is about triple what it was. I often get spikes, e.g. from slashdot or some right wing group getting upset about one of my essays, but not a steady climb like this. I use a sitemap, so there is no reason a search engine (presuming they use the site map) should poll that page more than once a day. Surely there can't be 3000+ spider hits a day on that one page. I guess I will have to wait until I run JSP on the site and then can track the IPs and see if I can see some pattern. I notice google often gives me my own site when I go looking for information. Part of what is going on is they may be ranking me higher. But that still leaves the mystery of the trident. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is "If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".
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| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
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| Date | 2012-01-25 13:28 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <avs0i7plgc375npd9ajcs2lsfepi0p0cui@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1529 |
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:17:08 -0800, Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >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. If you are curious, I have posted the graph at http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dropoff/hits.png -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is "If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".
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| From | Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> |
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| Date | 2012-01-25 15:21 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <O70Uq.158$DZ7.92@newsfe21.iad> |
| In reply to | #1535 |
On 1/25/12 1:28 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:17:08 -0800, Roedy Green > <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted > someone who said : > >> 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. > > If you are curious, I have posted the graph at > http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dropoff/hits.png Not Found The requested URL /jgloss/dropoff/hits.png was not found on this server. BTW, you might want to create a 404 document.
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| From | Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> |
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| Date | 2012-01-30 20:41 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <o5sei7l2sr9e5qq3qiehfejqr8ib5d1hof@4ax.com> |
| In reply to | #1536 |
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:21:17 -0800, Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> If you are curious, I have posted the graph at >> http://mindprod.com/jgloss/dropoff/hits.png oops http://mindprod.com/dropoff/hits.png -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com One of the most useful comments you can put in a program is "If you change this, remember to change ?XXX? too".
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