Explosion of WU units on index page load

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Hi there,

Don’t know if someone have ever experienced that but we observed recently a very strange use of our Bubble website

There has been a very strong increase in the working units used on the site, particularly on the Live Usage. We did think at the beginning that it could have come from specific workflows but most of the working units are from the use of our index page which seems strange. And if it were to be a workflow, it should do the same on our Development usage, and not on our Live Usage…

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When looking at it more closely, the requests are not distributed equally throughout the days

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We do suspect something like a bot attack. The usage of our website seems to have diminished so maybe the bot has ended its work…

Have you seen something similar recently ?

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The usage looks remarkably consistent by hour which is unusual.

What do the logs breakdown show (the pie chart)? Drill down and find out what’s costing WU.

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As in the page load of the index page or is there some workflow that is being used? When you drill down on the metrics chart you can uncover more of what is consuming the workload units. If you are hitting some 30,000 WUs + from just page load, then yes, you are likely attacked by a bot.

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Thanks for your quick reply guys,

I should have put the pie charts for you to understand better

The vast majority of the consumption has been done for the last 10 days

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Big part of the pie-chart is on page load. And this comes quasi exclusively from the index page (see below)

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We have looked at our worflows and back-end workflows and there does not seem to be anything going wrong. If something is focused on our index page (and especially on the live Usage), it could be due to page extensive page refreshs which is strange.

Our header and footer on each page, which are reusable elements, don’t seem neither to cause the problem

Again, what is very surprising is that there is a very strong difference between our development usage and Live usage…

Any idea appreciated =)

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Is there anything on your index page that could cause it to infinitely refresh under certain conditions?

If not, contact support as they may be better positioned to help you.

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Does your index page have juicey content like job or property listings - something screen scrapers might be attracted to? Doesn’t help solve your problem but might explain traffic.

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We have also contacted the support team yes =)

Honestly, nothing we have seen so far… But we should also see the same on our development page, no ?

If this was an infinite refresh, would we observe these patterns of WU consumption ? They are not distributed equally over the periods we checked

The beginning of the increase in WU consumption starts on September 25th. We released a version on September 27th but I think the previous version was several days ago so there is no coincidence with specific deployment as far as we remember.

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Hi,

Our website deals with digital tools applied to agriculture

On our index page, we have a header (like in other pages) to search for digital tools and companies that then direct to specific pages that have more information onto those tools and companies. Don’t know if people can look into this with loops and then, once they have checked everything, start to dig into each of the related pages

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