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Post by anni on Sept 27, 2012 16:24:14 GMT -8
Since my last Traffic Report, the guest count over 24 hours has ranged from 140 to 76. Without whipping out the calculator, that feels like averages of the high and low visitor numbers over the past four months. As I post, the Info Center on the homepage reads 102 guests, including 51 Googlebots. YIKES!!! at 5:19 pm. today there's 197 guests with a: "Most users online was 47, Today at 3:06" Brian has his machine (and his brain) set up to decipher what this all means, so I'll just have to wait and see what in the world?
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Post by Brian on Sept 27, 2012 23:01:07 GMT -8
YIKES!!! at 5:19 pm. today there's 197 guests with a: "Most users online was 47, Today at 3:06 a.m." I'm glad that Anni noticed that while I could still check. Although I was here before work Thursday morning, I didn't look at that part of the Info Center because it seldom changes. The last time was October 24, 2011, when 34 different IP address were visiting the message board. That's the number hitting at least one page of the message board within the past ten minutes. The previous record of 18 users was set in 2010. I was online during the last blitz, making it easy to identify their common Internet service provider, Amazon, which both sends its own marketing bots and leases its servers to others. I can't tell which. By the time I got home tonight, there were only a few IP addresses listed in the administrator's log around 3:06 a.m., which means that 42 of the 47 guests setting our new high water mark have revisited the board since. This time, three quarters of the 201 guests in the past 24 hours were Googlebots, an unprecedented number. For some reason, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board keeps becoming more Google-licious.
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Post by Brian on Oct 25, 2012 23:00:46 GMT -8
The Montrose Peace Vigil message board actually had a whole day since I posted my last Traffic Report when no Googlebots visited, briefly giving us the board's lowest guest count since November 2010.
In the past four weeks, the highest number of guests shown at the bottom of the homepage was 207 and the lowest was 24. For the past 24 hours, 66 distinct IP addresses visited, 39 of those being Googlebots.
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Post by Brian on Nov 29, 2012 0:51:20 GMT -8
Since my last report on October 25, the greatest 24-hour accumulation of guests on this message board was 183 and the lowest was 63. Currently, 90 guests are shown in the Info Center at the bottom of the homepage -- 66 of those IP addresses are Googlebots, indexing the words in our posts. Besides bots from Google and Microsoft's Bing, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board is getting daily hits from Blekko, "the spam-free search engine" I first noted last May, and one new to me, boardreader.com. I looked up all of the IP addresses in the past 48 hours, something I seldom do anymore, and I was surprised how few were known spammers -- and by how many probable actual human beings visited. Overseas, they came from Germany, Sweden, Columbia, Malta, Cambodia and three from the United Kingdom. U.S. visitors checked in from Naperville, Illinois, Spring Hill, Florida and one wireless connection, city unknown. Locally, the board logged an IP address from Glendale, three from Sunland-Tujunga and one from somebody using the Internet at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel.
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Post by Brian on Dec 26, 2012 0:00:05 GMT -8
Since my last report on October 25, the greatest 24-hour accumulation of guests on this message board was 183 and the lowest was 63. Currently, 90 guests are shown in the Info Center at the bottom of the homepage -- 66 of those IP addresses are Googlebots, indexing the words in our posts. Traffic on the Montrose Peace Vigil message board has gone slightly above that range. Since November 29, the top 24-hour guest total was 191 and the lowest was 68. As I post this monthly report, 94 IP addresses are tallied in the Info Center, 74 of those being Googlebots. I found four probable human visitors to the message board on Christmas Day: one from Culver City, two from Germany and another from Le Bignon, France.
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Post by Brian on Jan 24, 2013 0:45:29 GMT -8
The monthly marker: Since December 26, the highest total of guests in the past 24 hours was 165 and the lowest was 44, a bit of a drop in visitors from the past few months. At midnight, the Info Center on the bottom of the homepage showed 123 for yesterday. I counted 97 of those as Googlebots. Because of Google and the other search engines, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board had probable human visitors. I ran the IP addresses for the past two days and found clean, non-robotic hits from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, Leusden in the Netherlands and the Saint Petersburg in Russia, along with two each in France and Hong Kong plus a hit from a mobile device somewhere in the European Union. Closer to home, we had guests from Tempe, Ariz.; Concord, N.H. and Irvine and Burbank, Calif.
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Post by Brian on Jan 30, 2013 0:00:28 GMT -8
The Montrose Peace Vigil message board has had seven spammers register in recent weeks, then post links to a website in the U.K. The Newest Member currently displayed in the Info Center on the homepage is an activist in Tujunga, zimzip, so her user name is a nice blue link to her profile page. Maybe you've noticed the previous parade of names in gray, indicating that their memberships were deleted. All of the spammers have IP addresses from Indonesia. Each address employs different user names and email addresses for all of its posts, according to one of my favorite sources for identifying guests, stopforumspam.com. The first thing Anni or I do is delete the post with its link, which is being spread over the web to raise the link's ranking on search engines like Google. These recent spams are advertising goods for that room where you cook. Don't want to use their keywords! Next, we ban their IP and email addresses, for what little good that might do, before deleting their memberships with their profiles, which have more links in the signature area that none of us regulars ever have used in setting up our accounts. Anyway, spamming has never been much of a problem here, and it still isn't. Hell, once I was online when one of them registered and I deleted the account before it could post. A small pleasure, but fun nonetheless. If the spammers and their software ever become onerous, we can restrict registration. But I prefer keeping the board wide open for folks like Karen, aka zimpip -- and hopefully you too.
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Post by Brian on Feb 26, 2013 0:00:15 GMT -8
The monthly marker: Since December 26, the highest total of guests in the past 24 hours was 165 and the lowest was 44, a bit of a drop in visitors from the past few months. At midnight, the Info Center on the bottom of the homepage showed 123 for yesterday. I counted 97 of those as Googlebots. In the past month, the 24-hour guest tally topped out at 152 and the lowest mark was 38 guests. As I post, the Info Center reads 39 guests, with 20 of those being Googlebots. Among the remaining guests yesterday, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board had human visitors from Ramallah in the Palestinian Territory, Denver, St. Louis and the Tarrant Area Food Bank in Fort Worth. Only one spammer has registered and been deleted since my last report. However, the board has gained two new members, both of whom have posted. Welcome, Marco and Rafi!
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Post by Brian on Mar 20, 2013 23:26:03 GMT -8
The monthly marker: Since my last report on February 26, the highest total of guests in the past 24 hours was 140 and the lowest was 44. At midnight, the Info Center on the bottom of the homepage showed 71 unique addresses for Wednesday. Of those, 54 are Googlebots. I ran the non-Googlebot IP addresses on Tuesday. As I sat waiting 30 seconds for each one to load on my favorite locator service, it was hard to remember the early years of this message board when I ran them all. But there are rewards. After sifting through all of the bots from search engines and adware, and the known spammers, I found IP addresses of probable human guests from Washington, D.C.; Newark, Ohio; Mississauga, Ontario and an AT&T Wireless device somewhere in the United States. Two of the visitors from China had no record of spamming on another of my resources, Stop Forum Spam. The Montrose Peace Vigil message board welcomed three new members this month. Our old friends from the Glendale Peace Vigil, Norm and Pearl, joined as tommytrojans and bettyboop. Our newest member themelinda logged in from Ashtabula, Ohio.
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Post by Brian on Apr 30, 2013 23:00:26 GMT -8
The monthly marker: Since my last report on February 26, the highest total of guests in the past 24 hours was 140 and the lowest was 44. At midnight, the Info Center on the bottom of the homepage showed 71 unique addresses. Of those, 54 are Googlebots. Over the past six weeks, the highest guest total was 104 and the lowest daily accumulation was 43. This midnight, the Info Center shows 78. Of those visitors, 52 are Googlebots. The Montrose Peace Vigil message board isn't getting peaks like the 207 visitors it had one day last October because fewer would be spammers are coming. I ran all of the IP addresses on Monday and found more of them than I'm used to seeing from likely human beings, not search engine bots or known Internet spammers. Besides the logged in members, the board had hits from unidentified folks in Sweden, Germany, an unknown European country, St. Louis, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles, Brea, North Hollywood and Sunland-Tujunga.
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