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Leslie Hunziker

9 Years Ago

Photo Views

I've noticed on most of the pics I've uploaded that they are view by one particular person as many as 8 or 9 times within just a few minutes. what do you think this is?

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Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

its a bot. its a good thing.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

FireFlux Studios

9 Years Ago

They are normally bots.

I wouldnt say all bots are 'a good thing', some are,lots are just a waste of bandwidth (for FAA), and some can be 'bad' depending of how good your security is.

Looking at the first few of your images, you get visited by IP 144.76.23.141 (labeled Kiez).

That is the Trendiction Bot from Germany.

http://www.trendiction.de/en/publisher/bot

They market themselves as a 'public search engine' but also its heavily into marketing, and selling data.

Their main marketing product is called talkwalker. http://www.talkwalker.com/uk/social-media-analytics-search/

Companies use it to see how their brand and company is being spread across social sites.

It basically goes around and collects data from the web to then sell to these companies to help them with their marketing.

You can sign up for a free account if you're interested to see how it works, but its restricted until you pay them.

Generally, alot of images any of us post get a visit or 2 from 'Kiez', they probably monitor the 'newartwork' url, and visit them automatically as we post them.

I would class this one as a 'waste of bandwidth' type.

HTHs,

Rob.

 

Mike Savad

9 Years Ago

unless a site is flooded with a ton of bots, it won't hurt the server that bad. in any case it talks to search engines. and for all we know it's a buyer.

---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Diana Huff

9 Years Ago

Great information! Thanks FFS and Mike.

 

Iris Richardson

9 Years Ago

Rob what an education I had no clue.

 

Leslie Hunziker

9 Years Ago

Thanks so much all of you. I appreciate your responses and I won't worry about it anymore.

Leslie

 

Andrea Lazar

9 Years Ago

I have one image that has been overrun by bots - most recently from New York NY, Ukraine, Guangzhou and Beijing China, Brisbane, and Romania -
30 - 50 times a day, every day for now over 1,000 visits in a little over 2 weeks.
While it probably doesn't matter, but it just seems curious - I can't understand why this image or how this would have started? Is this normal?
Any thoughts?
Don't want to break any rules by posting the image in here - but I couldn't get the link to the page to work -

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/peeking-peach-face-lovebird-andrea-lazar.html

Edit: Since I got such a complete explanation from Rob, I removed the image and just put the link, even if it isn't working.

How great is it to have a place to ask and actually get the right answer?! Love the FAA community!

 

FireFlux Studios

9 Years Ago

@Andrea Lazar,

Looking at the last few days, its Content Spammer bots that have picked up on your URL. There is nothing much you can do.

These bots normally try to post spam in your comments, but they havent been able to. (Most likely because you need to be a member to post a comment. Im not quite sure why FAA gets targeted so much by Content Spammer bots, as they can never really post anything here, normally its wordpress sites that get such activity, but the bots just blindly keep trying).

So, all these bots are doing is wasting FAA bandwidth.

That 'can' cause FAA problems, as they have to buy bigger servers and more bandwidth to cope with the extra load.

This isnt only a problem for FAA, this generally effects any web site out there. There is a massive amount of automated and bot activity that is probably making up a very large percentage of the internet traffic.

On my own servers, a large amount of visits come from bots, the real big ones that continue to hit me, that I know about I tend to block down at the IP level in the OS. Since my servers are on MS Azure, I get charged for CPU usage and network activity, so it costs me money and performance of my site with all these bots if I just let the continue.

Most of these IPs that are hitting your image are also hitting my own servers, trying to post comments to my WordPress blogs. So I have more info myself on them as I can actually see what they try to post, and its just comments with links in them trying to advertise.

In Detail from the last few days on your url, if you click each IP, you can see the report about them from Project Honey Pot (a service that helps detect bots):

Romania
195.211.155.158
195.211.155.208

New York,NY
192.95.38.49

Beijing, China
120.37.230.248
120.37.210.58
120.37.207.25

Brisbane, Asia/Pacific Region
27.153.137.165
27.159.229.114
27.159.229.32

Guangzhou
110.82.170.197

Alchevsk, Ukraine
91.200.12.45

I also cross referenced on other sites, like myip.ms & stopforumspam.com

HTHs,

Rob.

 

Andrea Lazar

9 Years Ago

Rob - I appreciate that you looked and for the very specific information.

I tried to look up the Ukraine one and got to the Project Honey Pot, but didn't know what the information I found actually meant!
I understand now what their objective is and glad that these can't post spam in the comments on FAA.

Thank you very much for clearing it up and for your time!

Andrea

 

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