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2 Discussions, 98 Comments...3,679 Page Views??!
Is that normal? Looking at the Dashboard, my page views are ALWAYS exponentially more than the number of comments & discussions for that day.
One day had 0 new discussions, only 13 comments, and 1,593 page views. That's the lowest number in the past month.
I'm not running a large forum at all, just a small, private message board--maybe 40 active users, if that. What could be causing so many page views?
I disallowed the forum's directory on robots.txt to see if that would do anything, so we'll see, but I wanted to ask here if those numbers are normal or a red flag.
(Version 2.1b1 -- Upgraded from 2.0.18.4 which came from a phpBB import)
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look in your web logs. it should track ip address. you could see if someone is looking at your site.
to digress, perhaps some one is trying to scrape your site to generate a list of passwords to try. you could use sign logger to see if someone is trying to guess your password for admin.
you should upgrade your version or at least implement security patches.
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What do you mean for "private"? Access to your community is limited, even for bots/spiders/crawlers? Check logs for bots IP such as google.
I am guessing it is bot views.
As @peregrine noted, you will want to update to 2.1b2 for security fixes.
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I have found a very good article on the subject. Here is a snip and source link
http://www.yottaa.com/blog/bid/215372/The-Real-Story-of-Bot-Traffic-And-How-to-Prevent-it-from-Killing-Performance
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Wow, thanks everyone.
A while ago I did catch a weird IP from a French ISP constantly hitting the site, and blocked that IP. Like I said I just disallowed the forum's directory on my robots.txt, so I'm hoping that helps. I also added a crawl-delay.
By "private" I just meant you need an account to view/post, accounts are invite-only, etc. Thanks for that link, vrijvlinder -- gonna read up some more, and also upgrade for that security fix.