Who Are these People?

Graph of page views at this blog over the past month. From our usual level of 1,000 to 3,000 per day we shot up to 330,000 and are now headed back down.

I assumed this was something to do with bots, but last Saturday I ran into a guy who does analytics for Meta and he said that so far as he knows, Google's analytics are very good, and he would be surprised if more than 5% of these were bots.

So, a mystery. If there are any new folks out there, welcome, and feel free to tell me in the comments how you heard about us.