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I just found that 95% of my blog traffic comes from the fediverse or straight search, and I would like to thank all of you who've taken a look! It is nice to be read!
That's in contrast to the quote-unquote visible spaces; less than 5% of my traffic comes from Insta or FB links.
Not what I'd have predicted, but in keeping with the quality of interactions I have had here!!!
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摏 @scholar_farmer My reading of my logs is that these are various instances, pulling the link so they can get an image into that little box at the end of the post, rather than actual page reads. Sorry about that.
@alan so can you explain that to a less fully savvy person? Is there a security thing I should do? I want to be a good netizen, but I’m also busy with life events. Advice is welcome
@scholar_farmer There's no security risk. Really it's just a matter of distinguishing between for real page views vs. "page previews". When you put a link in your post, other instances pull a copy of it up, in part to validate it, in part to see if there's a feature image it can stick into the feed. That's a good thing. The difference to something central like Facebook is they'll only pull it once, then share the image across servers in their data centre. In a federated service, each server needs to do that fetch, so we see a lot of traffic.
I have a front end to my site that blocks all sorts of stuff, particularly aimed at the AI scrapers, but also a wide swath of bad actors.
That filter explicitly allows Mastodon and it's variants so people can see my posts.
@alan That was a really helpful explanation, thank you!!!