How can I figure out why I have a big jump in anonymous pageviews

[efuetatem1 (Efuet A Andrew)]

Thanks, @pfaffman but there’s no problem with the pdf, I actually uploaded it myself. I was just showing the picture to indicate that there’s no correlation with the thousands of anonymous users discourse is showing.

@Jagster

Of course, nothing else is needed that a bot is identified itself as an user. Changing an user agent is really trivial thing — even your browser can it. And Discourse knows only those bots that is using… well, known UA

ok, thanks.

@Falco

If you are comfortable with the command line you long into your server and use the following to track where most requests are coming from:

Thanks @Falco

The command line you provided has helped us trace the IPs responsible for the jump. For now, we are going to continue our observation before deciding if we want to block the crawlers.