1.28 M Pages Served, 6 K Pageviews Recorded: 214 Bot Hits per Human
PatronView’s server delivered 1.28 million pages in a week, while its JavaScript analytics logged only 5,977 human pageviews, roughly one real visit for every 214 bot loads. The post shows how unchecked crawlers from China, Amazon’s AI search, and common SEO bots flooded the site, inflating costs and hiding true traffic. It also publishes the Cloudflare firewall rules that finally throttled the bots and restored accurate metrics.