Why so much traffic?
I'm running a small personal single-page website for myself. According to Web Analytics, I have 60 visits (reasonable). But my Account Analytics shows: Requests 75.82k, Bandwidth 420.03 MB, Visits 42.6k, Page views 43.51k.
How is this possible? Are these all bots scraping my single webpage?? Thanks!
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There are always bots lurking around in the web. They knock on every domain, IP address, and port constantly looking for security holes.
Most of them are rudimentary and try all exploits randomly, including ones for applications unrelated to your project, such as Wordpress or PHP.
These bots learn about your domains (including
.workers.dev and .pages.dev) near-instantly using Certificate Transparency logs, which cannot be disabled and are always issued (even on non-Cloudflare platforms).
Some options to help reduce the noise from these bots:
- Disable .workers.dev
- Redirect .pages.dev
- Enable Managed Rulesets (requires Pro plan or above)