The last few years, web traffic from bots has increased rapidly. Some sources1 claim that automated activity now accounts for over half of all web traffic. This is even more pronounced on small websites like mine, as I don't receive many human visitors. The table below shows traffic on this website for the last few days: Path Hits 1 /wp-login.php 2751 2 /wp-admin/index.php 2707 3 /wp-admin/edit.php 2354 4 /wp-admin/profile.php 2353 5 /wp-admin/plugins.php 2351 6 /robots.txt 1131 7 / 994 8 /articles/feed.rss 989 9 /articles/how-i-almost-lost-my-backups/ 314 10 /wp-content/themes/vic/style.css 299 This clearly shows two things: The first useful page for a real visitor is in sixth place2. My stylesheet has a low number of hits compared to the frontpage and my most recently published article. One would expect each unique visitor to download the stylesheet at least once. That is to say, my own statistics show that I'm mainly serving our robot overlords. The situation is worse on other…
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