Snapshot of the load ap.space sees from AI crawlers

julian @julian@activitypub.space

<p>Can you guess when I turned Anubis back on?</p> <ul> <li>Grey line (left-hand; y-axis) tracks page views</li> <li>Blue line (right-hand; y-axis) tracks unique users</li> </ul> <p><img src="https://activitypub.space/assets/uploads/files/1769183491489-6fef34a9-80f9-4b9f-b266-212a31f486cb-image.png" alt="6fef34a9-80f9-4b9f-b266-212a31f486cb-image.png" /></p> <p>You can even see the spike in traffic that brought down the site hard enough that I got my butt in gear to tune Anubis and turn it back on.</p> <p>Based on the numbers here, there is a thirteen-fold decrease in activity (or a ~92% drop in traffic), all identified by Anubis as bots and blocked.</p>

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