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I ran an analysis last week that came back with a finding I liked, and it was wrong.
Comparing crawler traffic across the client sites we manage, fifteen of twenty one comparisons showed shared infrastructure. Same addresses, a different declared identity per site. That pattern is normally worth escalating.
The addresses were ours. Testing traffic from our own machines, plus log entries that predate the header we now use to tag our own requests. Corrected number, four of twenty one.
What caught it was a competing hypotheses checklist that requires listing the explanation that implicates you. It is the one finding nobody thinks to double check.
Full write up tomorrow, including what the verified numbers look like now. https://leftymediaco.substack.com/
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