Traffic bot /trafficbot.life

What happened?

This morning I saw our website (https://www.aikaan.io) had unusually high traffic. Few screenshots from the webmaster analytics page are below.

Further, the traffic was organic search!

This new high traffic was hitting a landing page /trafficbot.life

Oh! is there something wrong, I do not have a landing page with the name /trafficbot.life. Is my server compromised? Is there an attack? Is my web-server used as attach launcher?

What does this mean?

With simple analysis and research, I realized there is nothing to panic about. Someone is hitting my web-server just to increase the web traffic. Trying to get my attention (yes, they got it now).

Maybe someone will connect with me in few days. Explain how the traffic bots can increase the web traffic to my server and try to sell me. Or someone is just trying to test the traffic on my web-server. The request is not a DOS attack, this is a HTTP page requests from a bot.

What is the consequence?

The first consequence is, my website analytics data is skewed. I am not able to measure the genuine -vs- bot traffic hitting my website. Google webmaster analytics has ways to filter out these statistics. The thread here might help you.

If the server does not have enough resources, the bot traffic might reduce the quality of experience of genuine users. But this bot traffic is not really big enough to degrade the genuine user experience.