{"id":11141,"date":"2020-08-05T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T12:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2021-07-05T10:53:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T08:53:27","slug":"internet-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2020\/08\/05\/internet-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"robots \/ web harvesters eating up my Internet traffic volume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.hostsharing.net\/?title=Traffic\">https:\/\/wiki.hostsharing.net\/?title=Traffic<\/a> \u2013\u00a0recognise, analyse, block,  \u2026<\/li><li>\u2026<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My 2 top volume killers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u2026 wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron \u2026<\/p><cite>$HOME\/var\/web.log<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is functionality of my own WordPress site(s) \u2013 rather suprising, that my own software &#8220;kills&#8221; me. It is actually my &#8220;top volume killer&#8221;. The problem gets described here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/kinsta.com\/knowledgebase\/disable-wp-cron\/\">https:\/\/kinsta.com\/knowledgebase\/disable-wp-cron\/<\/a><\/li><li>\u2026<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u2026 wp-content\/themes\/twentytwenty\/assets\/fonts\/inter\/Inter-upright-var.woff2 \u2026<\/p><cite>$HOME\/web.log<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s a font file, that gets downloaded excessively from my WordPress site(s). The problem gets described here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/ryandaniels.ca\/blog\/set-up-customize-wordpress-twenty-twenty\/\">https:\/\/ryandaniels.ca\/blog\/set-up-customize-wordpress-twenty-twenty\/<\/a><\/li><li>\u2026<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I zeroed the font file in question \u2013 after backing up the original. (In fact I accidentally zeroed the other font file w\/o backing it up.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I can reverse the effect of zeroing that font file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> by de-activating the WordPress theme in question,<\/li><li>removing, re-installing, and re-activating that theme.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/wiki.hostsharing.net\/?title=Traffic \u2013\u00a0recognise, analyse, block, \u2026 \u2026 My 2 top volume killers: \u2026 wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron \u2026 $HOME\/var\/web.log That is functionality of my own WordPress site(s) \u2013 rather suprising, that my own software &#8220;kills&#8221; me. It is actually my &#8220;top volume killer&#8221;. The problem gets described here: https:\/\/kinsta.com\/knowledgebase\/disable-wp-cron\/ \u2026 \u2026 wp-content\/themes\/twentytwenty\/assets\/fonts\/inter\/Inter-upright-var.woff2 \u2026 $HOME\/web.log That&#8217;s a font file, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[249],"tags":[1458],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","tag-hostsharing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-2TH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}