Interesting analytics

I run Umami analytics on my site, and have done for a few years. I actually almost never check it though. I decided on a whim to check it today, and it's a bit Interesting.

Firstly, for some reason it hasn't retained the analytics from last year. Apparently all I got last year was 15 visitors in December.

But this year, I've had 3.25k visitors in total apparently. Of these there is a 97% bounce rate, and the average visit duration is 2s. What this screams to be is bots. I know there's a few real people as I've received emails before (if you are a real person reading this, shoot me a message!). But it seems like largely bots. It also means that I'm not getting a lot of real person traffic, which I suppose is to be expected because the only place I've really put a link to my blog is on 100 Days To Offload, and I don't really interact as much with the "blogging community" at large and largely blog as a solitary activity. So understandable that I've got little traffic from real people.

Most of the traffic is from the homepage, but some are from other pages. Interestingly /pictures/flora-and-fauna is my second most popular page. Not sure why, I guess people like pictures? (I assume most of the traffic that's not the homepage is probably real people.)

Another interesting thing is that almost all of my traffic is from Singapore. 81% in total, with the rest essentially being the USA, and China. Those two are expected but Singapore is interesting. I don't know if it's because the bot farms or crawlers or whatever are hosted in Singapore or what.