Spam Protector Plugin
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 12:50 am
Hi,
Perhaps a problem with Spam Protector? I am not sure....Problem is a huge increase in individual web pages being viewed on my site this month. I only have a few hundred pages on my site and Normally my stats reflect a similar number of individual pages a month being accessed... around 190...yet my AWSTATS reads that I have this month so far had around 8000 individual URLs/pages being hit on my site. Not certain if it is the cause but I started using the Spam Protector Plugin a couple of months ago in my sy9 generated blog which is embedded in my site & for the first month everything was great. I finally lost all of those annoying comments such as "great site" with links back to some loan organisation or weight loss site. I expanded my AWSTATS list down to see what the URL names were that people were viewing and there were thousands of almost the same URL with slightly different number sequence at the end. typically something like /blogweb/plugin/captcha_0ebd5fc944c7e1d84a88de6ac84b80c2. There are typically 2 entries and no exit on these pages. Simultaneously there was also a huge increase in exits from a couple of my old blog entries from a year or so ago. One having around 500 exits but only 80 entries. Really wierd. Also a huge amount of viewed pages from Ukraine (17k) being my top country this month when normally my top views are from Australia. Am I being attacked or is this a bug in the spam protector plugin or is this actually the spam protector doing its job & getting rid of some automated program trying to log in? I would appreciate any thoughts.
Perhaps a problem with Spam Protector? I am not sure....Problem is a huge increase in individual web pages being viewed on my site this month. I only have a few hundred pages on my site and Normally my stats reflect a similar number of individual pages a month being accessed... around 190...yet my AWSTATS reads that I have this month so far had around 8000 individual URLs/pages being hit on my site. Not certain if it is the cause but I started using the Spam Protector Plugin a couple of months ago in my sy9 generated blog which is embedded in my site & for the first month everything was great. I finally lost all of those annoying comments such as "great site" with links back to some loan organisation or weight loss site. I expanded my AWSTATS list down to see what the URL names were that people were viewing and there were thousands of almost the same URL with slightly different number sequence at the end. typically something like /blogweb/plugin/captcha_0ebd5fc944c7e1d84a88de6ac84b80c2. There are typically 2 entries and no exit on these pages. Simultaneously there was also a huge increase in exits from a couple of my old blog entries from a year or so ago. One having around 500 exits but only 80 entries. Really wierd. Also a huge amount of viewed pages from Ukraine (17k) being my top country this month when normally my top views are from Australia. Am I being attacked or is this a bug in the spam protector plugin or is this actually the spam protector doing its job & getting rid of some automated program trying to log in? I would appreciate any thoughts.