spike

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

LJ doesn't provide traffic stats for journals but this page does have a link to the maploco service; they generate visitor maps from IP addresses.  it currently looks like this: 

though neither they nor LJ (nor I) save logs or track any usage in detail, it does seem that over the past few days this space has experienced something of a traffic spike.  it started in the UK and spread to Canada and Australia in volumes that exceed the number of family, friends, colleagues and LJ flist in those places. 

it's not at all clear who else would think of reading anything here and without logs there's no way to identify referring pages.  nor has any of this traffic elicited any comments.  about all I can figure is that it might be related to the recent post about BBC reports on the sale of Stone Cottage in Worcestershire.  either that, or something odd has been happening at LJ or over at maploco. 

Comments

[gracegiver]

LOL ... great user pic! Is that what you look like?

I use statcounter. It shows referring links so that helps identify where the traffic is coming from. But 107 hits! Holy cow! Bots perhaps?

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

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> great user pic! Is that what you look like?
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probably not, but then it's hard to tell what others might think.  one thing for sure: I don't smoke.  though come to think of it there are pics of me in a couple of older entries in this space. 

the gent is Spike from the anime series Cowboy Bebop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_Bebop).  so yes, it's a lamer pun, but a better fit than this GITS icon. 

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> Bots perhaps?
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I am seriously lacking in clue. 

[tenaciousdoll.livejournal.com]

Looks like some fun detective work, trying to figure out what's behind the hits!