Blog Ping and Spam Statistics

One of the great features of Spinn3r is that it has native spam prevention which prevents a good deal of worthless content form being indexed by our customers.

What we haven't done a good job of doing (until now) is exposing the sheer volume of ping spam that hits our servers.

Every hour we see nearly 720k pings. Of these pings nearly 93% of them are from spam blogs!

Due to the sheer volume we've had to rework a number of our algorithms to function extremely efficiently.

Here's a copy of our ping traffic for the last 24 hours. Note that the dips in the graphs are due to monitoring issues and not representative of the underlying data.

Comments

[Otis Gospodnetic]

Can you lay # spams over time on top of that? Are there periods during the day when spammers are most active (indicates where they live? not really, their crap is automated) or which days of the week they are least active? (do they take it easy on weekend?)

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