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09/01/2025 07:16:57 AM · #1 |
hi all. I noticed something peculiar and wondered if anybody else noticed it or has an explanation for it.
I was looking through my profile for something when I noticed that my grunge entry had 1500+ views.
- Views since voting: 1536
- Views during voting: 88
that stood out on this list because it has 2 digits more than the most viewed image on my most 10 most recent entries.
Anyway, then I clicked into the challenge itself and I noticed that the top 5 images all that amount of views. To put it in context, the most-viewed entry in July's free study had about 300 views. But then I was curious, and explored some more. I found out that the indulgence challenge, and maybe the macro also have unusually high numbers. But the others seem to be "back to normal" (like the free study) with a few hundred views for the top ones.
Anybody got an explanation for this? was my grunge entry just that good :P but seriously, it's strange!
Message edited by author 2025-09-01 07:17:49. |
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09/01/2025 07:31:53 AM · #2 |
| If you noticed, this high number of views only pertains to top five images in those challenges, i.e. only those that were displayed on the front page. My guess is that it was some kind of web crawling bot that scoured our front page and clicked on all linls that were displayed there on that particular day. |
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09/01/2025 01:36:19 PM · #3 |
While the idea make sense, it does seem quite unusual for the crawler to have made 1,000+ minimum individual visits to every single image on the front page. As somebody who has crawled this site many times over the years (with permission!) I know how much you want to minimise repeated and unnecessary page visits.
Unless maybe the crawler was an AI bot that was doing the crawling while pondering sentience! |
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09/01/2025 01:47:09 PM · #4 |
| This site is a common target -- if you look at the "Who's Online" link right now there are 53 "guests" (right ..) and at times there have been hundreds ... I don't know the exact source or technique but clearly the aberrant numbers are due to some automated process(es) and not the photo's unique attractiveness (sorry ...). |
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09/01/2025 03:07:15 PM · #5 |
Just a thought...
Is is possible that the recent surge in activity over DPL (i.e., a statistically significant uptick in site activity over the past month or so) has attracted the algorithmic attention of some web crawler bots programmed to surface new/novel/attention-grabbing content from social platforms? |
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09/02/2025 03:26:45 PM · #6 |
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