Title: Distributed spike
Last modified: September 22, 2016

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# Distributed spike

 *  [aldesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aldesign/)
 * (@aldesign)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/distributed-spike/)
 * Dear SSPS,
 * As we are a small podcast 12-25 downloads is an average day, 70+ is a good day.
 * This morning I was diligently watching my stats, currently sat at 0, and suddenly
   in the space of a minute a spike of 45. Investigating further, this was equally
   spread across our fifteen episodes at exactly 3 downloads each. This is too distributed
   to be user behaviour and was wondering if there were any known bots/scraping/
   testing done by search engines/servers etc?
 * Best regards,
 * Andy @ The Movie Ladder

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/distributed-spike/)
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