In case other board admins are seeing this I have confirmed via Google Search Console that it is definitely Google and that it started about a week ago on my board. Looking at my server awstats information shows April traffic seems to have a consistent pattern until April 10th when the Pages and Hits stats take a huge jump. Note the Number of visits doesn't jump, so it seems some visitor (or a few visitors) are responsible for all the increase.My workaround is in ACP-> Spiders/Robots (Manage bots) I have added the bot Google [R&D bot] that matches the User-Agent of
Via Google Search Console's 'Submit feedback' I have inquired to see why the sudden massive jump in crawl requests.
GoogleOther in order to session manage this new traffic. Via Google Search Console's 'Submit feedback' I have inquired to see why the sudden massive jump in crawl requests.
Statistics: Posted by P_I — Wed Apr 17, 2024 2:04 pm