A few nights ago, I decided to check what the traffic had been here on the blog before I went to bed.  It was high, highest it had been all month. The number on the bar graph didn’t match the total count for the day; I think it was off by two. Nothing unusual. I’ve seen that before. Just refresh the stats, and they’ll agree.

So I refreshed.  The numbers were the same.  And several page views higher than they had been before.  So I refreshed again. The numbers were climbing. And climbing.

Long story short, I was on the receiving end of some sort of attack by a bot.  I went in to the security settings and tightened things down.  Before I was done, though, that became the second highest traffic day I’d ever had.  (The highest was some years ago when a high-traffic blog linked to a post.)

Traffic seems to be back to normal, although it’s hard to be sure.  It’s been a little erratic lately, and today it is down quite a bit.  Yesterday seemed to be fine.

If anyone is having issues accessing the site, please let me know.  I tightened the security quite a bit.  Since I’m still learning about some of the security features, I don’t know if I over did it.  I would have asked this question a few days ago, but I’m got an infection hangnail, and typing has been uncomfortable, to say the least.