Comments on: EU initiative in “overwhelmingly popular” shocker! http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2008/11/eu-initiative-in-overwhelmingly-popular-shocker/ In search of a European identity Sat, 07 Jan 2012 12:16:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jon Worth http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/2008/11/eu-initiative-in-overwhelmingly-popular-shocker/comment-page-1/#comment-60127 Jon Worth Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:56:33 +0000 http://www.jcm.org.uk/blog/?p=1886#comment-60127 Hang on, it's 10 million hits an hour, not 10 million unique visitors an hour. So if the pages are poorly designed and have, say, 50 small graphics on each page, then 1 visitor viewing 5 pages would equate to 250 hits. That way you get to 10 million reasonably quickly... I somehow suspect that most of the traffic is actually not people at all, but the Googlebot that's quite invasive and also some spam robots looking for vulnerabilities. Hang on, it’s 10 million hits an hour, not 10 million unique visitors an hour. So if the pages are poorly designed and have, say, 50 small graphics on each page, then 1 visitor viewing 5 pages would equate to 250 hits. That way you get to 10 million reasonably quickly…

I somehow suspect that most of the traffic is actually not people at all, but the Googlebot that’s quite invasive and also some spam robots looking for vulnerabilities.

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