| Top 10 of 166 Total URLs By KBytes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Hits | KBytes | URL | ||
| 1 | 372 | 1.94% | 789068 | 23.62% | /images/meatcard_photos/moonmen_one.JPG |
| 2 | 404 | 2.11% | 689487 | 20.64% | /images/meatcard_photos/moonmen_final.JPG |
| 3 | 259 | 1.35% | 539948 | 16.16% | /images/meatcard_photos/fireandice_final.JPG |
| 4 | 207 | 1.08% | 437311 | 13.09% | /images/meatcard_photos/fireandice_one.JPG |
| 5 | 222 | 1.16% | 412961 | 12.36% | /images/meatcard_photos/cornered_final.JPG |
| 6 | 185 | 0.97% | 381504 | 11.42% | /images/meatcard_photos/cornered_one.JPG |
I had a disturbing email yesterday: The domain aaziz.org (aaziz) is about to exceed its bandwidth limit. I only get about 300K traffic any given month – and that’s only lately. What the hell happened.
Well, I found out. Looked through the access logs and Webalizer reports, and found out a SHIT TON of traffic (97%!) were the six pictures we took for the meatcard contest. They were over 2.2 MB in size each. Oops. I also noticed a few more peculiar things, for one, that 68% of referrers were that exact blog post, but the actual blog files weren’t getting a lot of hits. I also only accumulated $0.02 in ad revenue that whole day, so I don’t think it’s actually been a lot of traffic. I’m thinking perhaps a crawler or spam bot or something.
I really don’t have a lot of experience as a web admin, so I don’t know. I’m going to have to keep an eye on it and possibly move the images off-site if it gets bad. I reduced them to 400k each, so I’m hoping that 80% reduction will help. I don’t think it’s hotlinking, as I added hotlink blocking last night and it didn’t do anything. Well, we’ll see. It was only an extra $1 for an additional 2GB this month, so not that big of a deal.