Proof once again that the milestones aren’t always planned, we reached 5,500 with the unlikely Fulwin T6, the plug-in hybrid version of the Chery Tansuo 06.
As far as the Fulwin line-up goes, it’s one of the more interesting shapes, being more avant-garde than the T8, which really is a Chery Tiggo 8 with a plug-in hybrid drivetrain, or the full-size T11.
It’s not as exciting as the Ferrari 849 Testarossa that got us to 5,400 last month.
Meanwhile, we’ve done more work on blocking bots that were attacking the main Autocade site, and in some cases, stealing the content. Our last milestone report indicated there were some immensely popular pages, and we were relying on Cloudflare’s bot blocking program to rid us of Open AI and other scrapers. However, a bunch were missed, so it was up to some manual intervention on our part, so bots from Tencent, Google (individual users using their platform rather than the Googlebot spider) and others are now blocked. We’re back down to 10,000–16,000 page views a day, which is more typical based on our history. Who knew we’d be celebrating a decrease in traffic? But when you’re serving 9 Gbyte a day, you want it to go to humans, not some theftbot’s database.
We look forward to reporting on when we reach 46 million page views—hopefully at a reasonable interval.