The Numbers

Five Days of Pudding

generated automatically

Band scan

MaxMind GeoLite2 · local lookup

Signal levels

Apache access logs

Who’s reading the archive

User-agent classification

Most read

Humans only, crawlers removed

No single post carries the archive. Traffic spreads thin across years of transcribed shows and reviews, which is what a deep back catalogue looks like when it works. These were the month’s most-read pages.

Turned away at the edge

CrowdSec · Apache · Wordfence

Nothing here needed a human. Requests that failed the rules were dropped, counted, and their sources banned automatically.

Nine layers deep

    The rack

    Self-hosted, start to finish

    Unique visitors exclude known bots and crawlers, which are counted separately above. Locations come from a local MaxMind GeoLite2-City database — no third-party analytics, no cookies, no visitor tracking. Ban counts are a snapshot taken when the report ran.