The bots situation is crazy

In one of my previous articles, I said how I migrated from plausible to Liwan to Umami. But in the spirit of vibe-coding, I have decided to ditch Umami to a custom-made analytics. In Rust. It runs on DuckDB, uses 130MB of RAM, and ingests non-stop my caddy access log. So now, I get to see not only JS verified visitors, but also all the bots (in addition to RSS subscribers). Neat! I turned on rotating Caddy logs around June 2026, when I was playing with GoAccess, and since then I have recorded 697,991 bots. These are obviously filtered out of the “organic” visitors, but it’s still an interesting number to see that was not available to me in Plausible or Umami. As with any new toy, you get excited in the beginning, so I was opening it every 15 minutes to just take a look. And when you look at something often, you start to notice some patterns. For the past 30 days, I have noticed that in addition to the regular direct and search engine sources (hello people from kagi.com), one website…

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