Occasionally I get a spike in the numbers of visits to my blog and I put it down to my having posted something funny, or share-worthy, or appealing to a particular sub-group of readers.
Once in a while a friend or family member drops by and reads multiple posts to catch up on my day-to-day musings. But then sometimes, out of the blue, something quite bizarre happens. A visitor checks out so many posts that it would be impossible for a normal human to actually read that many posts in one day.
That visitor is probably a robot. I know this because a human often “likes” a post or makes comments. A robot never does. I hope WordPress is on to this and is doing something about it, but if not I hope that the robot never learns to like or comment on blog posts.
Snowbird of Paradise 
@snowbirdofparadise.com Do you have access to logs? I have recently seen a sharp uptick in gets for WordPress related files. Not sure if they count as views since they are not requests for actual pages.
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Your comment intrigues me but I don’t know if I have access to logs or what I would do with them if I did. I know only what I need to know to produce blog posts. After that I have to trust the tech-savvy people.
Not guilty…. I promise… I promise….. I.. I.. I prom.. Reset.. Reboot. The content of your blogs happy making me it raining in Beijing.. Bloop… Have a nice day.
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Ha ha! Bloop to you, too!
If you’re on WordPress.com, Jetpack Stats counts your visits and go into your settings (Settings/General/Privacy) to disable AI from using your content.
Thank you so much, Daniel! I did not know this. I will do as you suggest.
You’re welcome.