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Re: Recent page visit statistics



On Tue, 2025-07-22 at 20:51 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Hi Maytham,
> 
> * Maytham Alsudany <maytham@debian.org> [250722 20:08]:
> > I've been able to count unique[1] page visits for pages on
> > wiki.debian.org for the past couple of days[2]. The top 100 visited
> > pages are pasted below for those who are interested.
> > 
> > --
> > Maytham
> > 
> > [1]: "Unique" in this case means unique IP addresses.
> >     Some crawlers were requesting a single or few pages hundreds if not
> >     thousands of times, so results would've been skewed if non-unique
> >     visits were to be counted.
> > [2]: Approx. from July 20 2025 00:00 UTC to July 22 2025 17:50 UTC.
> > 
> 
> >    349 ReleasePartyTrixie/Austria/Vienna
> 
> If this number is correct, then we have a counting problem. I 
> created this page on July 19th, and I highly doubt it is this 
> popular.
> 
> The more likely explanation to me would be that 95% of the 349 
> visits are from crawlers.

No wonder DSA needs to keep adding blocks if the wiki is getting
bombarded from hundreds of crawler IPs.

Is there a list of bot IPs somewhere to exclude them from the count?

--
Maytham

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