Autocade has now hit 40 million page views, with the counter at 12,353,148, to be added to the previous installation’s 27,647,011. We’re 159 over the milestone.
There has been plenty of activity as we added some pages to match Autocade Year of Cars 2025, our new print yearbook, sitting on 5,222 models, a healthy 114 above the total when we hit 39 million.
As predicted, it took three months to get the latest million page views. The dampener to all of this is that some of the traffic gains in previous milestone posts were down to “AI” scraping. We don’t have logs that show that for sure, but we do know that after we put up advertisements to Libriz, our e-commerce bookshop, that site was hit by IPs from China and Singapore. We’ve since learned that Douyin has a scraper with those countries’ IP addresses. Those ceased as suddenly as they started.
The last few days were comfortably above 10,000, and below 20,000, so the traffic remains healthy, but not at the 60,000 that we recorded once. We’re doing a reasonably good job blocking the bots, and went out of our way to block Douyin’s and Semrush’s.
The scrapers are in breach of our T&Cs and before you say that they wouldn’t have seen them, they deem us to have seen theirs even when we haven’t. Plus their bots are blocked in robots.txt, which they don’t observe. It’s theft.
As tradition has it, here are how the milestones look.
March 2008: launch
April 2011: 1,000,000 (three years for first million)
March 2012: 2,000,000 (11 months for second million)
May 2013: 3,000,000 (14 months for third million)
January 2014: 4,000,000 (eight months for fourth million)
September 2014: 5,000,000 (eight months for fifth million)
May 2015: 6,000,000 (eight months for sixth million)
October 2015: 7,000,000 (five months for seventh million)
March 2016: 8,000,000 (five months for eighth million)
August 2016: 9,000,000 (five months for ninth million)
February 2017: 10,000,000 (six months for 10th million)
June 2017: 11,000,000 (four months for 11th million)
January 2018: 12,000,000 (seven months for 12th million)
May 2018: 13,000,000 (four months for 13th million)
September 2018: 14,000,000 (four months for 14th million)
February 2019: 15,000,000 (five months for 15th million)
June 2019: 16,000,000 (four months for 16th million)
October 2019: 17,000,000 (four months for 17th million)
December 2019: 18,000,000 (just under three months for 18th million)
April 2020: 19,000,000 (just over three months for 19th million)
July 2020: 20,000,000 (just over three-and-a-half months for 20th million)
October 2020: 21,000,000 (three months for 21st million)
January 2021: 22,000,000 (three months for 22nd million)
April 2021: 23,000,000 (three months for 23rd million)
June 2021: 24,000,000 (two months for 24th million)
August 2021: 25,000,000 (two months for 25th million)
October 2021: 26,000,000 (two months for 26th million)
January 2022: 27,000,000 (three months for 27th million)
April 2022: 28,000,000 (three months for 28th million)
August 2022: 29,000,000 (four months for 29th million)
December 2022: 30,000,000 (three months, 10 days for 30th million)
April 2023: 31,000,000 (four months for 31st million)
August 2023: 32,000,000 (four months for 32nd million)
October 2023: 33,000,000 (two months for 33rd million)
December 2023: 34,000,000 (two months for 34th million)
February 2024: 35,000,000 (one month, 10 days for 35th million)
March 2024: 36,000,000 (two months for 36th million)
May 2024: 37,000,000 (two months for 37th million)
July 2024: 38,000,000 (two months for 38th million)
September 2024: 39,000,000 (two months for 39th million)
December 2024: 40,000,000 (three months for 40th million)
At least I know we hit this milestone with mostly humans and a third of a million per month is just fine. The latest model is the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer.
Can ChatGPT write in my style? After asking it—and I promise I seldom check it out, what with its water and power usage—it generated utter drivel. So it can’t write in my style and the chosen topic wasn’t real, either, more a synthesis of what I might write about. Utterly incapable of originality. Of course, we knew this, but it was very interesting to have it confirmed so well.
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