Bots or otherwise…
Mercy, that’s quite a spike. Easily most page views for a single day in the 8 or so years I’ve been running this blog.
Most were on the home page, but a good chunk are on an archive page that’s pretty ordinary; mostly twitter updates, save for a few thousand word rant about my identify theft nightmare.
UPDATE 2012-11-20: please see this post for where this traffic is coming from.
I’m going to guess this is why the increase in your traffic http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?n=jason-crowther&pid=161083498
Someone fairly well known who shares your name died on 11/12. I suspect your blog was found by people looking for info on him — the same way I found it.
@Nicole, @JB. Thanks for the background. Condolences on the loss.