Curious

I got somebody’s (or something’s) attention….

I had written the post, Thank You, Google, on Wednesday August 9^th and placed it in queue at the blog to be published on the morning of August 10^th.

Overnight – in the time between placing it in queue and the time it actually appeared on the blog, traffic at the site jumped to perhaps 20 – 25 times normal.  Then things calmed down…

…until last night.  I had Zero-hedge type traffic: perhaps 80 times what I would expect overnight.  The articles with the most views were older – most from 2015 & 2016.  The main things in common for these articles were a) the topics were mostly about open borders and immigration, and b) all had a high volume of comments – between around 60 – 100.  I suspect the latter point is the critical one.

Normally, the traffic to the site is about 70% from the US.  Overnight, France, Belgium, Philippines and Kuwait all had higher traffic numbers than did the US – each from slightly more up to eight times more, with France by far the most.

I have had bot attacks before – sporadic, over several months.  This was nothing like those. 

Summary

Normally Chrome (Google) is the browser used by visitors to the site about 40% of the time; overnight, it was 96%.

If it need be said, my blog is hosted by Google.

Maybe I violated a company policy?