Crazy Stats Driven by Bots
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I recently migrated this blog to a static site hosted on Cloudflare due to an increased amount of vulnerabilities being discovered every day. As a benefit of that migration, I have access to analytics on my site.
Immediately you can see that something isn't quite right, there's no way my little blog is getting 4,400+ unique visitors every 7 days. I can only assume this number comes from an intense amount of bots hammering my site to scrape and train on content. Even more of a reason to switch to a static site, my poor little $5 DigitalOcean VPS running my old PHP site must have been struggling!
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