We are using the PVC plugin to find out the page views on our website. The plugin works well, and it is a great plugin for this scenario. We recently checked our website and server to check the performance. From the reports, we found that the number of admin-ajax requests that are hitting our website is very high. Also, most of the hits are from this PVC plugin, and the the action is given below
[action] => pvc-check-post
How can we reduce the hit count? Is there any option to do so?
Please let me know your feedback.
Thank you
]]>The bots are hitting the ajaxCalendar link in the calendar page and generating 1000’s of requests for a small site on cheap hosting. We have seen 18K hits in a day for a site that has 30 pages and normally sees a few hundred hits a month!
Looking in the AWSStats accesslogs I see many many entries like that below. this batch had 6K hits in 4 hours until I blocked the bot in htaccess.
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:32 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1181698652&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:34 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1286001320&mo=11&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:36 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1286001320&mo=1&yr=2024 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:39 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=2118010445&mo=9&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:41 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=2118010445&mo=11&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:43 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=2118010445&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:44 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1753992886&mo=10&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:47 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1753992886&mo=8&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:48 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1753992886&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:51 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=22108654&mo=10&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:53 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=22108654&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:55 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1201090799&mo=9&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:03:57 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1201090799&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:04:00 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1201090799&mo=11&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:04:04 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=553390698&mo=12&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:04:05 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=553390698&mo=10&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
[07/Dec/2023:17:04:07 +0100] GET /events-calendar/?ajaxCalendar=1&calendar_size=%E2%80%9Dlarge%E2%80%9D&id=1325864577&mo=10&yr=2023 HTTP/1.1 200 Mozilla/5.0 ... (Amazonbot/0.1; +https://developer.amazon.com/support/amazonbot)
Is there a way to stop the bots following the ajaxCalendar link from in EM or can you add a nofollow to the link. Anything that will stop these bots killing our site.
thanks Colin
WP 6.4.2
EM 6.4.6.4
2. Does “hits” corresponds to the views? If yes, can the label title be changed?
Thanks a lot!
]]>since last updates the traffic counter does not collect exactly each hit of the page. we have almost 12.000 visitors daily but wp stats does not collect them. we have google analytics ga4 propery ID and at this tool the hits are collected but not in the wp stats.
second the scale factor of increasing hits is disabled why?
thanks or your help!
]]>Code:
item: function (data) {
if (data.post_date < Math.floor(d.setDate(d.getDate() – 7) / 1000)) {
return (
‘<article> ‘ +
data.taxonomies.course-category + ‘‘ + ‘<p>’ + data._highlightResult.edd_price.value + ‘</p></div>’ +'<a class=”btn_button” href=”‘ +
data.permalink + ‘” target=”_blank”>Details </article>’
);
}
Can anyone tell me what these visits are?
Kind regards,
Karen
Unfortunately I needed to disable the plugin as of the last upgrade the plugin shows the number of hits on each page without a user login required.
]]>Unfortunately I needed to disable the plugin as of the last upgrade the plugin shows the number of hits on each page without a user login required.
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