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Hello everyone,
We have a Joomla 4 site that uses JEvents. The site includes around 20 categories and approximately 1,000 events. It’s a fairly large site, and I've noticed significant performance issues from time to time. When I check the access logs, I see that most of the URLs are related to JEvents.
After analyzing the current daily log, which had 54,000 records, I found that >35,000 of them were JEvents-related. There’s almost a hit every second. I also checked the sources, which came from multiple IP addresses, but according to ipinfo.io, most of them originate from eSited Solutions, an American data center.
I had a similar issue before with a Joomla eCommerce component that generated unnecessary URLs, leading to excessive crawler activity (for example, 20 category pages generating thousands of paginated pages with different orderings and filters).
Has anyone else faced a similar issue? Why is this happening with JEvents specifically? Could it be generating too many URLs for bots? But how are there over 35,000 URLs per day for just 1,000 events?
Any thoughts?
We have a Joomla 4 site that uses JEvents. The site includes around 20 categories and approximately 1,000 events. It’s a fairly large site, and I've noticed significant performance issues from time to time. When I check the access logs, I see that most of the URLs are related to JEvents.
After analyzing the current daily log, which had 54,000 records, I found that >35,000 of them were JEvents-related. There’s almost a hit every second. I also checked the sources, which came from multiple IP addresses, but according to ipinfo.io, most of them originate from eSited Solutions, an American data center.
I had a similar issue before with a Joomla eCommerce component that generated unnecessary URLs, leading to excessive crawler activity (for example, 20 category pages generating thousands of paginated pages with different orderings and filters).
Has anyone else faced a similar issue? Why is this happening with JEvents specifically? Could it be generating too many URLs for bots? But how are there over 35,000 URLs per day for just 1,000 events?
Any thoughts?
keep2000
set the post as Critical priority — 3 months ago
Hi,
since some weeks we have the same issue.
Most probably it started some weeks ago with a link from a facebook account of one of our dance club members to our JEvents calendar (https://www.tsg-dacapo.de/jeventstestlistbyday-4/). Afterwards we were bothered by a facebook bot with up to 350.000 records per day, which produced up to 80 GB log files. As result, our internet provider IONOS blocked our website because of these heavy loads.
Meanwhile the website is online again and facebook has reduced his accesses, but now we have to observe many other bots. Since these new bots are also looking mainly for /jeventstestlistbyday-4/) we suppose that facebook has sold this address. Now the load went down to less than 80.000 records and log files of lesss than 1 GB. Main pesterer is now Amazon with more than 95%.
We are still working on a solution. Obviously it is not very easy to block Amazonbot. in contrast to bingbot or GPTbot for instance.
If we found a reliable solution we will communicate here. But this is something you can not asked the JEvents team for help. You have to work with the robots.txt and the .htaccess. Ask your providerfor more information. Potentially you have to install even a fire wall.
Best regards
Heinz
since some weeks we have the same issue.
Most probably it started some weeks ago with a link from a facebook account of one of our dance club members to our JEvents calendar (https://www.tsg-dacapo.de/jeventstestlistbyday-4/). Afterwards we were bothered by a facebook bot with up to 350.000 records per day, which produced up to 80 GB log files. As result, our internet provider IONOS blocked our website because of these heavy loads.
Meanwhile the website is online again and facebook has reduced his accesses, but now we have to observe many other bots. Since these new bots are also looking mainly for /jeventstestlistbyday-4/) we suppose that facebook has sold this address. Now the load went down to less than 80.000 records and log files of lesss than 1 GB. Main pesterer is now Amazon with more than 95%.
We are still working on a solution. Obviously it is not very easy to block Amazonbot. in contrast to bingbot or GPTbot for instance.
If we found a reliable solution we will communicate here. But this is something you can not asked the JEvents team for help. You have to work with the robots.txt and the .htaccess. Ask your providerfor more information. Potentially you have to install even a fire wall.
Best regards
Heinz
Thanks, interesting. Of course, blocking bots on a specific site or server needs to be done by the site manager or server admin.
I was just wondering why JEvents, in particular, is affected. The site has 5,000 articles, 6,400 tags, 200 menu items, and multiple languages, but none of them are heavily affected, except JEvents.
I was just wondering why JEvents, in particular, is affected. The site has 5,000 articles, 6,400 tags, 200 menu items, and multiple languages, but none of them are heavily affected, except JEvents.
JEvents usually has a lot of calendar, year, days views which can lead to a lot of links.
Did you see this article https://www.jevents.net/docs/jevents/item/improving-performance-on-your-jevents-site?highlight=WyJjcmF3bCJd - it may help
Did you see this article https://www.jevents.net/docs/jevents/item/improving-performance-on-your-jevents-site?highlight=WyJjcmF3bCJd - it may help
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