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8 Years Ago
I have this one image that is viewed at least once a day from brisbane/asia pacific. I find it odd. Always the same image-it occasionally changed location but always from china/asia.
8 Years Ago
I find that Wilmington finds my older artwork that I even seem to have forgotten about! I guess that could be good! But yes, a lot of hits in the last few days!
8 Years Ago
I've been wondering the same thing.
And Nicolyn, I'm in Brisbane, but I don't think I've been viewing any picture over and over. Which one is it?
Nope, don't think I've looked at yours. Just viewed Houseboats #4 (Which I LOVE!). How does that show up?
8 Years Ago
It seems to do many many visits on each image. Once just not enough to satisfy it. Its an image addict I guess :)
8 Years Ago
No, it's the DuPont's looking to redecorate their properties :D
Richard Reeve
ReevePhotos.com
8 Years Ago
That bot has been hitting my images a lot lately also the past couple of days. I looked up three of the IP's from it, and they're all listed as Amazon.com Technologies.
8 Years Ago
Is a bot a bot?
There are central routers that we label as bots. In reality if you tweet something or whatever it can be seen by 100
people immediately. Particularly if it is shared locally. We may only see one central router such as Wilmington, DE.
We do not fully know.
Google does not need to go crazy with it all day all the time. Although much of it is probably Google as well.
Dave
8 Years Ago
Shucks. I looked at the times, and they are not all in a row during the same minute as the other bots, so I was hoping to wake up to a sale from Wilmington one of these days.
Oh, well. Such is life.
8 Years Ago
Just checked the IP address for one of my Wilmington hits and it's Amazon AWS.
I believe FAA uses Amazon AWS (Cloudfront) as a CDN - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network so what you're really seeing is probably Amazon caching content from the site for faster delivery.
It would be nice if it could be excluded from visitor counts but I'm not sure it's practical because Amazon has a large number servers all over for this purpose.
Of course, some of the traffic may be something else entirely but since we're all seeing so much of it, chances are that most of it is related to that.
8 Years Ago
Mark,
I am not on Amazon with FAA, but I get a lot of Wilmington, DE.
I think it is simply a new central hub/router.
If something sparks interest out there is can be at the same time more or less.
Dave
8 Years Ago
My bad...from Google search.....
60 percent
The total percentage of bot-related web traffic is actually down this year from what it was in 2013. Back then it accounted for 60 percent of the traffic, 4 percent more than today
There was a Wired linked article that 20% of all web traffic is bad bots.
Dave
8 Years Ago
David - it has nothing to do with having artwork on Amazon - the shopping site. This is Amazon's web servers, an offshoot of the main company. They provide servers for a LOT of companies including from what has been said in the past, FAA.
8 Years Ago
Thanks Mark, I forgot about their server farms.
So a central router is involved. By the definition of the internet it had to be.
Addition: Mark I heard a small news blurb that Amazon might enter the Google Search business.
I do not know when and the internet search I just did turned up other stuff about Amazon competing
with Google over ad pricing, but not a direct foray into an actual Amazon search portal.
Amazon is in endless negotiations with Google over ad pricing.
Dave
8 Years Ago
Wilmington came in slow, with a few sporadic hits everyday, now it's just like other bots with multiple hits in a row...OR the entire city has developed a new art awareness and we will all soon be swimming deliriously in sales.
Parma, Italy is also a more recent bot player.
8 Years Ago
I was covered up in Wilmington last night and it is continuing to cover up my stats today.
8 Years Ago
I don't think this is a bot per se so like we think of for search engines so much as a process of caching content for Amazon's CDN but you'd have to get official word of that from FAA/Sean to be sure.
At the end of the day, it could be anything and the lack of clarity highlights why it's hardly worth spending time on... The reason I rarely look at the visit counts, etc. The only stat I really put much stock in personally is sales stats. An unidentified human who is absent-minded looking at images isn't much better than a bot. It's only when you can put a name and face to those shoppers...
8 Years Ago
What I want to know is how anyone else is supposed to be able to get in and view my work??
Just kidding :)
8 Years Ago
lol look at the visitors for my Molted Duck Image...
LocationDate & Time of VisitGuangzhou, China09/02/2015 at 1:30 PMGuangzhou, China09/02/2015 at 1:30 PMBeijing, China09/02/2015 at 5:03 AMBeijing, China09/02/2015 at 5:03 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region09/01/2015 at 6:50 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region09/01/2015 at 6:49 PMBeijing, China09/01/2015 at 8:11 AMBeijing, China09/01/2015 at 8:11 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/31/2015 at 8:07 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/31/2015 at 8:07 AMPutian, China08/31/2015 at 7:59 AMPutian, China08/31/2015 at 7:59 AMPutian, China08/31/2015 at 4:47 AMPutian, China08/31/2015 at 4:46 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/31/2015 at 4:12 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/31/2015 at 4:11 AMBeijing, China08/29/2015 at 10:33 PMBeijing, China08/29/2015 at 10:33 PMBeijing, China08/28/2015 at 11:47 PMBeijing, China08/28/2015 at 11:46 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/28/2015 at 8:22 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/28/2015 at 8:22 PMPutian, China08/28/2015 at 12:42 PMPutian, China08/28/2015 at 12:42 PMBeijing, China08/28/2015 at 12:40 PMBeijing, China08/28/2015 at 12:40 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/28/2015 at 8:47 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/28/2015 at 8:47 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/27/2015 at 10:13 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/27/2015 at 10:13 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/27/2015 at 6:44 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/27/2015 at 6:44 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/26/2015 at 4:04 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/26/2015 at 4:04 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/25/2015 at 5:29 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/24/2015 at 3:05 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/24/2015 at 3:04 AMBeijing, China08/23/2015 at 6:10 AMBeijing, China08/23/2015 at 6:10 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/22/2015 at 7:47 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/22/2015 at 7:47 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/21/2015 at 1:45 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/21/2015 at 1:45 PMMelbourne, Australia08/19/2015 at 11:21 PMBeijing, China08/18/2015 at 7:29 PMBeijing, China08/18/2015 at 7:29 PMGuangzhou, China08/18/2015 at 2:27 PMBeijing, China08/17/2015 at 10:02 PMBeijing, China08/17/2015 at 10:02 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/17/2015 at 4:08 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/17/2015 at 4:08 AMPutian, China08/17/2015 at 12:09 AMPutian, China08/17/2015 at 12:09 AMGuangzhou, China08/15/2015 at 2:44 PMGuangzhou, China08/15/2015 at 2:44 PMBeijing, China08/13/2015 at 7:31 PMPutian, China08/13/2015 at 7:23 AMPutian, China08/13/2015 at 7:22 AMBeijing, China08/13/2015 at 3:36 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/12/2015 at 9:20 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/12/2015 at 9:20 AMBeijing, China08/10/2015 at 3:27 AMBeijing, China08/10/2015 at 3:27 AMGuangzhou, China08/10/2015 at 1:48 AMGuangzhou, China08/10/2015 at 1:48 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/09/2015 at 9:25 AMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/08/2015 at 11:32 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/08/2015 at 11:32 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/07/2015 at 8:22 PMBrisbane, Asia/Pacific Region08/07/2015 at 8:22 PMBeijing, China08/06/2015 at 7:20 PMGuangzhou, China08/06/2015 at 5:48 PMGuangzhou, China08/06/2015 at 5:48 PMGuangzhou, China08/06/2015 at 6:43 AMGuangzhou, China08/06/2015 at 6:43 AMBeijing, China08/06/2015 at 6:03 AMBeijing, China08/06/2015 at 6:03 AM
Every Day-My Duck is being stalked.....lol
8 Years Ago
And here I thought it might be someone who knew me :/
(ex-DelaWHEREian, lives 15 minutes away)
8 Years Ago
Alicia - I looked up a couple of the IP addresses on yours and they both showed up on lists for known spam bots.
Basically dumb bots that keep trying to post spam in the comments on your image but since they aren't registered members they can't.
I say dumb because they keep rinsing and repeating over and over without ever succeeding.
If at first you don't succeed, try try again?
That's the bulk of what I see when I do look up IP addresses for frequent "visitors" on my own work.
8 Years Ago
lol I thought some traveling salesman or something has set it as his screensaver and it just randomly reported visits, lol
8 Years Ago
Alicia, I have an image that is getting hit constantly by the massive list of locations you're receiving. Funny thing, the image of mine that keeps getting hit isn't even an exceptionally good one, imo. :)