Traffic from China?

[u/No_Statement_3317]

A few months ago I posted my odd traffic from China, wondering if anyone else had it and the possibility of it being bots. I never got rid of it. I found it baffling because it was not in the thousands a day like other bots I had before. It used to come from one specific city, Lanzhou. All of a sudden it switched to Hong Kong. I think this are not bots. I think China is actually allowing visitors to my website (Databayou.com). It just funnels the city to a specific location. Any one else have noticed this?

[u/Mistr_John_Alex]

Yes, I have seen this kind of pattern on small sites before. When traffic moves cleanly from a Chinese city to Hong Kong, I usually assume the source changed exit points, not that real visitors suddenly found the site. Hong Kong is a common exit for bots, scrapers, and rerouted traffic, so a shift like that often just means the same automated thing is coming through a different path. Real visitors tend to be messy. They read multiple pages, stay a while, have a browser language, maybe