WAF RuleNo.2 has crushed the extra traffic using Geo applied JS Challenge
Before the ratio was approx - 4:1
Cloudflare:OriginServer
Now it’s closer to 1:1 serving
These regions were still sending a ton of traffic.
Analytics was spitting anomaly alerts and the metrics in analytics were still all over the place.
Adsense were really wrecked, page RPM was nearly at .00c with the surge. I guess Adsense was detecting this as suspicious traffic and pulled metering.
You can see the pre-surge uplift (blue), and even then the RPM collapsed, but the super page view surge (blue) totally floored the page rpm. Previous 30+ days very steady page views and pattern.
Dashboard
This is how the dashboard views looked, the last 5 days are lower because CF mitigation were deployed from here on out. If not, there is no reason why this traffic was going to stop increasing.
For perspective the Other (red) page views traffic on the highest day was nearly 10 times the volume of the Anon (green) page views. Let that sink in.
Fingers crossed this balances out over the next 2/3 days.