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[GK]

My website (sig. line) appears to receive hits from unlikely and/or strange places. I can't see how a link to my site could appear on most of those listed.
Can these visitor stats be considered reliable? Like, what is with all the "porn" and Russian sites?

[PA0PBZ]

Meh... ohranaprim.ru -> 176.57.209.123 -> http://viewdns.info/reverseip/?host=176.57.209.123&t=1

1049 domains....

[tszaboo]

I also had a bunch of backlink spam recently, also, visitor spam. They basically provide a link on their website to yours, search engines will process this, and some unfortunate people even refer the backlinks on their website. Which means that the awesome SEO tools will put a link to a porn site on yours.
Not to mention there was a day when I got 1500 comment...

[GK]

Well, I don't run a forum or blog type site where comments or links can be posted by others. Still can't see why a porn repository or a Russian salad-making website should be directing traffic to my electronics site. 

[daqq]

SPAM and hacks in a thousand forms. It's likely a way of making themselves more visible to search engines, spamming all over the place, making themselves look legit to algorithms.

The situation is REALLY messed up - I've got a small website ( www.daqq.eu , ~10 hits/day), and the SPAM blocker blocked around 90k SPAM messages in one year, automated attack attempts of all sorts... the SPAM including viagra, porn, shoes, electronics, music...

[GK]

I have been averaging about the same number of "unique visitors" per day. However as of only the past month the numbers are inflated due to the influx of supposed referrals from (mostly) weird Russian sites. Over half of my current hits are from either Russia or the Ukraine. Unless the statistics gathering machine is confused something BS is going on here. Dunno if this is normal or not for any registered domain that has been active for long enough.

Of those ~300 per month unique visits, over 98% are in the 0-30s time duration bracket. Maybe I need pictures of stupid looking cats or something .

[nitro2k01]

Do you have any data of the user agents or IP addresses of those visitors?

[SirNick]

I have been averaging about the same number of "unique visitors" per day. ...  Dunno if this is normal or not for any registered domain that has been active for long enough.

It is.  Want real fun?  Put up a wiki or forum and watch your database swell at light speed!    Thousands and thousands of users, oh boy!

Side note:  Wikimedia isn't really designed for removing content.  I had to write several scripts to bring my >1GB database back down to the ~100KB it was supposed to be.

Still can't see why a porn repository or a Russian salad-making website should be directing traffic to my electronics site. 

You sure it was that kind of salad they were referring to?

[sleemanj]

My website (sig. line) appears to receive hits from unlikely and/or strange places.

Do you run any advertising?

Edit to add: the referer data is supplied by the browser, entirely possible there are spam bots and spiders out there providing bogus referers.

[Artlav]

I noticed that too - starting about a month ago i started getting a lot of incoming traffic from weird domains, in groups of three.
They only appear on my game's site, but not on my portfolio site.

Never quite figured out what they should mean.
The post(-ing?, -ers?) don't appear to be intelligent - can't even solve an arithmetic captcha, so no weird posts or comments.

The IPs are always different, btw. And always in groups of three.

[GK]

Edit to add: the referer data is supplied by the browser, entirely possible there are spam bots and spiders out there providing bogus referers.

I think this or something like it is probably it.

[Bored@Work]

These connections come from robot spiders or bot nets. E.g. rough robots not following the convention of robots.txt, or bot nets anyhow giving a toss.

If they come from bot nets the machines trying to connect have been hacked / infested with malware, and are now used to distribute spam, recruit more machines into the bot net, set up SEO, or whatever else the herder (bot net "owner") wants them to do, e.g. run a DDoS attack or spy on users. "Good" bot net malware can be updated remotely by the herder to repurpose it to whatever pervert task the herder wants it to do.

Connections coming in groups of three can have several reasons. E.g. simply a bug in the malware, or a deliberate attempt to circumvent firewalls. I.e. many admins block IP addresses from certain countries like Russia, Germany or China, or even whole regions like all of Eastern Europe or Middle and South America. Trying from several machines increases the odds of getting through.

You see so many weird domain names, because there are so many weird domains out there on the Internet.