Donncha Ó CaoimhJust testing the load on my server. May delete later.
Also, enjoy the video of Gaybo on the Late Late Show in the early 80s.
https://odd.blog/2022/12/21/computers-are-the-big-thing-this-year/
Blog post summary is up! My server barely noticed the extra traffic which followed the usual pattern. wp-json request followed by page request. 619 requests in total.
https://odd.blog/2023/01/02/the-mastodon-onslaught-on-your-blog/
Ross McKayThat sounds wrong way around; is it true? I'd have guessed page request followed by wp-json oembed request, otherwise how does the fedi server know how to make the oembed request?
FWIW, whenever I publish a new post, Facebook is right there to load the post and cache it. My guess is that my SEO plugin does that (The SEO Framework), certainly isn't me doing that (no FB for me).
Even only caching pages with WP Super Cache will at least halve the load from the fediverse; worth it.
@webaware I did have that list of URLs reversed initially, but then I looked in my logs and saw the wp-json URL being hit at the same moment as the page URL by the bots I looked at.
Since you asked, I checked again and other bots visited the page first! I'm not sure what to make of that.