I have a question that might not be grav-specific, but I appreciate any hints or readings to give me a direction.
I have a grav website and use the count-views plugin to see roughly how interesting my site is. I record about 5-10 visits per week. So I guess that’s my mom and her tea party friends.
Last week, I recorded >700 extra visits on my /error page. “Trending”, I guess. Visits on all regular subdomains were normal.
What could be going on? Is this something to be worried about? Are there tools to block seemingly automatic repeated visits?
@falkm, I installed and took a quick look at the count-views plugin and did some tests…
Every request to a non-existing url seems to add to the count of the /error page.
Because of the sudden large increase of hits on /error, I guess the script(s) of one or more hackers have visited your site. These scripts try a set of urls (known for their vulnerabilities) to detect possible attack areas. Since most (if not all) of these urls will not be found on your site, the counter for /error will go through the roof…
If you want to know the url that causes the 404 error, try my logerrors plugin, I guess you may find some urls like wp-login or administrator. urls that used to atack other cms.
You will need the data-manager plugin to visualize data.
