After wondering why my website has seen a 250% (or more) increase in site traffic over the past week, I think I’ve found the answer.<\/p>\n
It’s Taptu<\/a>, a new search engine tailored for the iPhone.<\/p>\n Their bot, apparently, doesn’t behave<\/i> like a bot. It acts like an iPhone, it serves a User-Agent string like an iPhone, so it looks, for all the world, or to a server log anyway, like an iPhone. An old<\/i> iPhone. That loads lot<\/i> of pages.<\/p>\n This, specifically, is its UA string:<\/p>\n Mozilla\/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit\/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version\/3.0 Mobile\/1A542a Safari\/419.3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And here I was, thinking suddenly that I was more interesting to ‘netizens everywhere. Alas, alack, and many alarums, I am not. It’s just a bot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After wondering why my website has seen a 250% (or more) increase in site traffic over the past week, I think I’ve found the answer. It’s Taptu, a new search engine tailored for the iPhone. Their bot, apparently, doesn’t behave like a bot. It acts like an iPhone, it serves a User-Agent string like anContinue reading “On a Spike in Website Traffic”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}