Stats skyrocket for a single post

Hi Berto! I had a look at your site and the post in question. Jetpack appears to be connected properly and the stats code looks correct. What leads you to believe that the stats are incorrect? And have you made any recent changes to your site?

Just let me know, and we can go from there!

Hi Ryan,

I track my visits also with Google Analytics and there you can see the normal traffic figures.

Regards and thanks,
Berto

Hi again,

Take also a look to this image, perhaps it may be helpful:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3gA74uXfVMlcnNyN09RUmduZFU/view?usp=sharing

Cheers,
Berto

Thanks for the additional info, Berto! I see what you mean with the drastic increase of visits recorded. Have you made any recent changes to your site? And could you provide me with a list of plugins that you currently have installed?

Hi Ryan,

I have not made mayor changes to the sites these days, the only changes are minor plugin updates.

Here is the list of my plugins (I have also sobre home-grown plugins which are not included but I haven’t changed them lately):

Advanced Responsive Video Embedder
Akismet
Anti-spam
Better WordPress Minify
Broken Link Checker
Comment Notifier
Comment Redirect by Yoast
Configure SMTP
Contact Form 7
Cookie Law Info
Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Fanciest Author Box
Hide Broken Shortcodes
ITRO Popup Plugin
Jetpack por WordPress.com
Lazy Load
Link shield
Members
Optimize Database after Deleting Revisions
P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
PageLines Googlefonts
Popular Posts Bars
Pretty Link Pro
Responsive Lightbox
Revive Old Post (Former Tweet Old Post)
SEO Smart Links
Table of Contents Plus
The New WordPress.com smileys
UpdraftPlus – Backup/Restore
Wordfence Security
WordPress SEO
WP-PostRatings
WP Sitemap Page
WP Smush
WP Super Cache
WP Twitter Enhancer
WP-Usuario-Avatar
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

Regards,
Berto

Thanks! I’ve asked our team in charge of Stats to take a look, and I’ll get back to you as soon as we figure this out!

Did you find the issue?

Today stats seem back to normal ??

Cheers,
Berto

We didn’t change anything yet, but I’ll let you know when we do and when we figure out what caused this!

Today stats are skyrocketing again, this is crazy ??

We had a look at the logs to try to find out more, and it looks like the requests were made by a bot that wasn’t identifying themselves as a bot.

We’ve added some rules to request bots not to make such requests in the future. Hopefully the spikes shouldn’t happen again!

Ok, thank you. Since some days, things got back to normal again ??