About three years ago someone or some group in Italy began accessing my blog. The way this appeared in the stats was rather strange. Approximately every other day or so there would be a spike of 75-80 page views. Looking closer I saw these spikes all came in one hour. If it was random people in Italy or even a group of friends it seemed strange they would all access my blog at the same time. Perhaps some automated system?
The volume was also strange. The cumulative stats say that there have been 28,800 views from Italy over three years. That’s quite a lot, considering over twelve years I’m almost at 4,200 posts. So that number of views could have read the entire contents of this blog almost 7 times.
In November those spikes slowed down and in December they stopped. There haven’t been any readers from Italy since December 16. My page views have dropped from about 2400 a month to 1300 in December and projections for January suggest maybe 1000. All that is a puzzle.
Another puzzle is in the list of page views by country there is frequently the entry “Unknown Region.” That appeared in the list for today. How is it possible that a computer’s home country can’t be identified? Is my blog being read by some government agency in some country that doesn’t want to be identified?
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