I noticed this happened the last two days: [Screenshot_20231021_153545] I recently rebuilt my instance so just wondering if it could be a change in the way pageviews get counted? Does anyone else see this pattern? If not, do you have any suggestions on how to investigate what’s causing this? Most of my anonymous traffic is coming from google and there doesn’t appear to be a spike in the referred count for any specific topic. Any thoughts are appreciated

(FWIW I have no plugins, and I don’t see this pattern. I did have one big day - the sort of thing which happens if someone shares a link. That’s 7 days ago whereas my update was 5 days ago. [image] )

I keep the instance pretty up-to-date. I don’t know how to check what the previous version was. It was probably previously updated about a week before this most recent update. [image] Commits · discourse/discourse A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple. - Commits · discourse/discourse Plugins [Screenshot_20231022_121034] I’m thinking the phenomenon is not a bug (but I don’t want to rule that out as a possibility). Any tip on how to investigate the source of this traffic is appreciated

Nginx is logging everything. My guess is it happened by bots, out there is some SEO stealers sites that use false user agents.

Anonymous pageviews doubling overnight?

Community Building Data & reporting

nat (Natalie T) October 22, 2023, 3:01pm 3

Could you share your list of plugins/themes?

What version did you upgrade from?

Topic		Replies	Views
How can I figure out why I have a big jump in anonymous pageviews Data & reporting	10	1487	March 9, 2022
Possible wrong counter of pageviews Product Support	2	621	February 10, 2019
Sudden Explosion in Crawler Views in 2.0 beta 1 Data & reporting	1	944	January 23, 2018
Too many users and pageviews Data & reporting	3	683	August 1, 2020
Anonymous views suddenly very high Data & reporting	48	2430	December 10, 2025

Anonymous pageviews doubling overnight?

Related topics