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This link hypothesizes browser pre-fetching as one reason why CloudFlare overestimates page views. But it doesn’t explain why it suddenly shows 100x more, which seems extremely unlikely to be accurate.
I’d already seen that pre-fetching theory proposed.
I didn’t mention that while Cloudflare was skyrocketing unreasonably, my other stats were also increasing–but by a factor of two or three, not one or two hundred.
Very strange.
I ran into a period of time over the weekend when I couldn’t get to the site and was redirected to Cloudfare (I think). It was something about DDoS protection if I understood it correctly.
There was actually a very short period when I had to increase the security level, because the server was very overloaded, looking as if it were under attack or some other unexpected load.
That lasted an hour or so. It had no effect on the statistics, though, since Cloudflare counts real page views separately–or so they claim–and the stats have been high, both before and after.