83% of requests (globally) to our apex homepages (bbc.co.uk/ and bbc.com/) are from "Python Requests".

That's 84 million requests per day.

In the words of Bricktop...

#BBC #WebStats #PythonRequests #BrickTop

We monitor how much traffic we get from each country per day to check errors/blocking etc. (as I've previously mentioned).

Big drop-off recently from Angola & as usual it's an ISP (TV Cabo) changing their "is the internet working" config.

That prompted me to (again) look at how much we're serving to Fortigate "is the internet working" checks per month, roughly:

- 109 million web pages
- 10 Terabytes of egress

What a waste.

Make `head` requests rather than `get`, please!

#BBC #WebStats

Wow, as reported elsewhere, traffic from Iran to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com has dropped to virtually nothing as of yesterday.

Only 3 ASNs have made any requests at all today:
- iran information technology company pjsc
- netiface limited
- m247 europe srl (unsure if this is *really* in Iran or not)

We'd normally see about 200k requests/day from Iran and today we've had just over 600.

#Iran #InternetShutdown #WebStats

Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics

https://www.obsessivefacts.com/gemini-proxy?uri=gemini%3A%2F%2Fgemini.bortzmeyer.org%2Fsoftware%2Flupa%2Fstats.gmi

#HackerNews #GeminiProtocol #Deployment #Statistics #GeminiProxy #WebStats #InternetTrends #TechNews

~51,000 T-Mobile USA IP addresses make a total of 13 million requests to https://bbc.com/ using `python-requests`.

Being on the internet is fun.

#WebStats #WebDev

3% of requests to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com have a `user-agent` of OKHttp.

Part of that 3% is a single IP in Turkey which is making nearly 3 million request per day using OKHttp on it's own.

Being on the internet is fun.

#WebStats #WebDev #BBC #Bots #WhoRuinedTheInternet

Page views± on the Celebrity Traitors Live Page as a global heatmap.

We had requests from 136 countries all-in.

Didn't watch any of it myself but folks seemed to enjoy it - was definitely a big chunk of traffic.

± from "likely humans" - not obvious bots

#WebStats #BBC #CelebrityTraitors

What is this? 2021?

#Log4Shell #InfoSec #WebStats