# Spike in anonymous users

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632 "2019-05-02T00:16:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![nomnom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@nomnom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nomnom)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632/1 "2019-05-02T00:16:20Z")

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We had a spike of 70K anonymous users a couple days ago. I was curious what the cause of that might be?

 ![spike](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/6/4631ff01bed5ed1cc2e97d7b25d6dd6dcb691027.png)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632/2 "2019-05-02T00:16:50Z")

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Almost always rogue bots. Check your admin reports for high volume crawler user agents.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632/3 "2022-08-21T01:14:56Z")

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/spike-in-anonymous-users/116632/4 "2022-08-21T03:12:41Z")

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