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| From | Nigel Wade <nmw@le.ac.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.help |
| Subject | Re: O.T. Puzzle about hit distribution |
| Date | 2012-01-25 11:57 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <9oa90rFprtU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <9heuh7h2msinuqg1jmuggfltnrrfnb8vqd@4ax.com> |
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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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
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