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Post by Brian on May 29, 2013 23:00:20 GMT -8
Wow, this is the sixth page of this thread. When I started the Traffic Report three years ago, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board only had 13 guests in 24 hours. Picking up from the last page: 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. Since May 1, the highest 24-hour guest accumulation was 102 and the lowest was 55. Right now, the Info Center on the homepage reads 84 guests. Of those, 54 are Googlebots. All numbers roughly the same. As administrators, Anni and I keep the board wide open for anyone who wants to register as a member or just post as a guest. We've made new friends on the corner over the past five years, folks we met here first. Sometimes, an international spammer will post links, so Anni and I delete them immediately to prevent their links from being picked up by search engines and attracting more spammers. Everybody else is welcome to join the board and post anything. We will never censor non-commercial speech.
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Post by Brian on Jun 26, 2013 23:00:32 GMT -8
The monthly Traffic Report: Since May 30, the highest 24-hour guest total was 138 and the lowest was 44. As I post, the Info Center on the homepage shows 47 active users. Of those, only one was a Googlebot. And that one was here at 12:36 a.m. yesterday, so the Googlebots seem to be taking another rare day off. Typically, at least four dozen Googlebot IP addresses visit every 24 hours, many of them more than once a day. Before they ebbed away, the guest totals were averaging more than 100. Anyway, I'd be shocked if no more Googlebots come to search the message board, after all these years.
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Post by Roberta on Jul 8, 2013 19:46:53 GMT -8
Traffic has been copacetic here in the beautiful Point Reyes area. This cooking band got us all dancing at the wedding which brought us up here. The leader (and groom) is the son of long-time friends of ours. hoteinstein.com/
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Post by Brian on Jul 10, 2013 23:00:27 GMT -8
Hot Einstein is quite a find, Roberta. Anni and I enjoyed the embedded original songs, especially the third one, and I read every tab on their website. It would be cool if they'd play in Southern California. Typically, at least four dozen Googlebot IP addresses visit every 24 hours, many of them more than once a day. Before they ebbed away, the guest totals were averaging more than 100.
Anyway, I'd be shocked if no more Googlebots come to search the message board, after all these years. Well, the Googlebots have remained largely absent since -- only three of them visiting each day, with a slightly different numbering sequence than the dozens that used to show up reliably. Without them, the daily visitor totals have ranged from 84 to 28 in the past two weeks.
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Post by Brian on Jul 31, 2013 23:00:28 GMT -8
The monthly Traffic Report: Since May 30, the highest 24-hour guest total was 138 and the lowest was 44. As I post, the Info Center on the homepage shows 47 active users. Of those, only one was a Googlebot. Since June 27, the highest accumulation was also 138 and the lowest was 28. At this moment, there are 64 active users in the past 24 hours. Just four of those were Googlebots. It's been fun following Roberta's IP addresses -- which only Anni and I as administrators can see -- when she visits the message board while traveling Europe. To see how your IP address appears to the world, click on the site I use, IP Address Location. Then scroll down to see your unique address, your approximate location along with a map and your Internet service provider, among other data. I also run the numbers through Stop Forum Spam and Project Honey Pot to identify the would be spammers and the various bots. In a five-hour span on Tuesday night, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board had probable human visitors from Germany, New York City, Seal Beach and Burbank. Four IP addresses hit at 12:11 a.m. -- from the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Cal State San Bernardino and two from UC San Francisco.
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Post by Brian on Aug 27, 2013 23:16:22 GMT -8
Since June 27, the highest 24-hour visitor accumulation was 138 and the lowest was 28. At this moment, there are 64 active users in the past 24 hours. Just four of those were Googlebots. Since August 1, the highest total was 306 and the lowest was 36. As I post, the Info Center on the homepage shows 64 guests, with seven of those being Googlebots. Hold it -- 306? Yes, and that's a record for the nearly five-year-old Montrose Peace Vigil message board. Another new mark was set that day, August 8, as you can still see in the Info Center -- the most users online was 231 -- dwarfing the previous record on September 27, 2012 of 47. But subtract 231 from the daily total of 306 and you get 75, which is merely on the high end of one day's average for guests. When the message board set new highs previously, the added traffic was from a combination of search engine bots and would be international spammers over many hours if not days. Those 231 IP addresses on August 8 were all online in the same ten-minute period. I have spent three evenings since then running IP addresses through my three favorite filters, and because I could only get to 30 percent of them, I concentrated on the first minute, 9:16 a.m., and the last four minutes ending at 9:25. I could not find one search bot or known spammer. Most were in U.S. blue states or Canada, including many small colleges I've never heard of with Cal State San Bernardino back again. Sometimes IP addresses are registered to organizations -- the board was visited during those ten minutes by a Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in San Ramon, the Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, an Ohio Public Library in Cleveland, the New York City Bar Assn. and the Corporation of Fine Arts Museums in San Francisco.
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Post by Brian on Sept 23, 2013 23:14:22 GMT -8
While I was sleeping around 5 a.m. Monday, the message board had its worst spam attack by far. I'm used to the occasional one, maybe two spam posts by new members -- and sometimes I get a special thrill online when I flush out a spammer right as he is registering. This time, I spent 45 minutes deleting 20 users, banning 13 IP addresses and removing 14 posts.
Most of their members' profiles had URL's to the website for the wares they were selling. Because of Google, I won't use the word they had in every profile, new thread subject and post, but it's that room where you wash the dishes. The spammers try to saturate message boards with their links to boost their Google search ranking. Of our real members, only Jeanne saw their work before I erased them. (Thanks to Jeanne -- and to Sharon last month about another spam post --for alerting Anni and me off the board as well).
I could set the administrative filters so that only members could post and someone could only become a member after getting approved, but the message board would have missed many great posts and perhaps some of our 52 members -- we know most of them, while the others are apparently people expressing support by joining here. I'd rather keep the board as accessible as possible for such human beings.
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Post by Jeanne on Sept 24, 2013 5:29:02 GMT -8
And thanks to you, Brian for the upkeep on this board, tedious as it must be at times. And thanks for explaining their motive. I couldn't see why it would be worth their while to try to sell storage and horizontal surfaces for food preparation to a few peaceniks.
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Post by Brian on Sept 25, 2013 23:00:46 GMT -8
Time for the monthly marker: Since my last report on August 28, the highest number of guests visiting this message board within 24 hours was 138, coincidentally the same peak number in two of the past three months. The lowest guest total was 28. Right now, the Info Center on the homepage shows 101 distinct IP addresses -- 22 of them are Googlebots. Their numbers have been going up again. And 38 bots from the Chinese search engine Baidu visited the board within 20 minutes late this afternoon. That's not unusual. The Baidubots have been arriving in packs of increasing numbers over the past few months, behaving quite differently than the bots from all of the other search engines. I have trouble navigating the site because most of it is in Chinese. After some effort I found an English search box and typed "Montrose Peace Vigil" in quotes. I got less than a full page of results, mostly mentions of our group by the Bradley Manning Support Network and other organizations on their websites, including the worldwide action we supported (thanks to Roberta's efforts) on the disputed island off of Japan's west coast. For now, I have to surmise that these pages are being translated.
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Post by Brian on Oct 24, 2013 23:00:28 GMT -8
Time for the monthly marker: Since my last report on August 28, the highest number of guests visiting this message board within 24 hours was 138, coincidentally the same peak number in two of the past three months. The lowest guest total was 28. Right now, the Info Center on the homepage shows 101 distinct IP addresses -- 22 of them are Googlebots. In the past four weeks, the Montrose Peace Vigil message board set a new record of 668 guests within 24 hours, shattering the old mark of 306 last August. The next highest daily total was 123. The lowest guest accumulation was 39. As I post, the Info Center reads 65 guests, with 22 of those being Googlebots. The board also set a new high of 450 users online within a ten-minute period on October 16, double the previous record of 231 on August 8. At first, I thought that an e-mail blast containing a link to this message board that Roots Action sent out at around 11 a.m. PDT might be responsible for hundreds of hits within an hour. I have only had time to trace 39 randomly selected IP addresses from that day's log, and I was surprised to find that an amazing five of those addresses were here last August as well: Loyola University Chicago; Laurentian University in Ontario, Canada; individuals in Oakland, Calif. and Austin, Tex. and the New York City Bar Association. Because of those repeat visitors, I don't know what caused this big rush. Somebody from Tulsa Realtors dropped by. Less surprising was the visit from the U.S. Department of Defense out of Fort Huachuca, Ariz. -- the Pentagon itself has come here before. And like my searches last August, not one of the IP addresses that I ran was a spammer or a bot.
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