Hey, friends.
The analytics for my writing site are showing a surge of visitors with Windows NT (43% over the past 24 hours). That can’t be right. I thought it might be bots, but there isn’t a coinciding influx of bot traffic. I also have some bot blockers in place.
Nothing seems suspect outside of that. But it’s a tiny bit concerning.
Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening? Does it seem like a potential security/privacy issue?
Thanks in advance.
Hey man, you’re probably much more knowledgeable than me and I may be way off on this but Windows NT refers to Windows 10 and Windows 11. It’s not referring to the original Windows NT from the 90s.
That’s possible, depends on what analytics platform they’re using. Ours lists it as Windows 10/11.
Its probably AI crawlers masquerading as NT…
Huh. That’s interesting. I guess I normally don’t ever get a lot of Windows traffic, so I didn’t realize this. This is a newer open-source, privacy-focused analytics platform that I’m trying out. I now realize on previous analytics platforms they just listed it as “Windows.” Here they include the “NT,” which is just throwing me off.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing this with me. I appreciate it.
I think this stems from Windows 10 / 11 still being products from the NT kernal and have a legacy NT tag in the OS that some analytics pick up and use.
You should be able to dig around and find it in regedit.
Relevant question would be: what analytics do you use?
Beampipe. I get what I need from it.
Is this the best site to use?
Did you check the Windows NT thing I mentioned?? That might be the quick answer.
I don’t think it’s the best. The best solutions are self-hosted, but I’ve had a hard time with that for analytics. However, regarding hosted solutions it’s one of my two favorites among privacy-focused analytics. The other is Microanalytics.
I did. And I marked it as the solution. Thank you.