The page view mystery is out of control. We're getting over 100,000 page views per day. That would be great if they were coming from all over the place. On a typical day VSL gets less than 5,000. Mostly from visitors from US and EU locations ( according to Google ). For the last several weeks VSL has been getting 100K per day with 98.5% of them coming from Vietnam, which has never been even a small, regular source of page views.
Either something is broken at Google or something nefarious is going on. Whatever.
I'm going to turn off comments and links and leave this page up until August First. At that time I'll consider my options. I am not a web master and don't have the tools or time to hunt down this issue. If the page view count stays high I'll make the site private. You'll see a message about signing in but I won't be monitoring it or returning emails from anyone I don't know or have some VSL history with.
Problem resolves? VSL goes back to normal.
I would just delete the blog but I'd like to preserve the 6115 posts and the tens of thousands of images so taking it private, admin access only, is my option should today's strategy fail.
Might be paranoid but maybe not. I guess we'll see. In the meantime MJ has some riveting stuff about his search for an all electric car... Check it out.
