Blue Team — Operational Summary
Your site received 6,347 external requests over a 4-hour window, with 563 unique IPs. Traffic was dominated by bot/crawler activity (1,174 sessions), while likely-human engagement was minimal (1 session). Operator activity was negligible (3 requests). The top referrers were Meta platforms and Bluesky, suggesting minor social media traffic. Exploit attempts (9 requests) targeted WordPress installation paths, but no successful breaches were indicated. HTTP 200 responses accounted for 96.5% of traffic, with a small fraction of errors (404s, 500s). Datacenter traffic was negligible (0.1%). This aligns with typical low-engagement, high-bot traffic for a static or lightly used site.
Red Team — Facts Only
Time window: 2026-05-25 10:00–12:35 MDT.
Total external requests: 6,347 from 563 unique IPs.
Operator activity: 3 requests from IP 38.175.170.87.
Datacenter traffic: 0.1% of requests.
Likely-human sessions: 1 (browser UA, non-datacenter IP, referrer/direct visit).
Engaged sessions: 1 (≥1 article page, ≥30s duration).
Bot/crawler sessions: 1,174.
Top referrers: m.facebook.com (3), facebook.com (1), go.bsky.app (1).
Top IPs by volume: 74.7.241.22 (565), 216.73.216.51 (502), 216.244.66.198 (172).
HTTP status codes: 0 (38), 200 (6,125), 304 (9), 308 (68), 404 (105), 500 (2).
Exploit attempts: 9 requests targeting `/wp-admin/install.php?step=1` from IPs 104.23.223.75, 104.23.223.74, 172.64.192.148, 172.70.251.49.
Purple Team — Pattern Analysis
This traffic pattern is consistent with a low-engagement site: high bot volume, minimal human interaction, and negligible datacenter presence. The exploit attempts are routine WordPress probing, likely automated, with no evidence of success. The top IPs by volume (74.7.241.22, 216.73.216.51) may be crawlers or misconfigured clients; their high request counts without errors suggest benign activity. The 500 errors (2 instances) are negligible but worth monitoring if they recur. No adversarial fingerprint stands out—this is background internet noise. Bandwidth and compute load appear normal, with caching likely handling the bulk of requests (HTTP 304/308 responses). For the next window, track recurrence of the exploit-attempt IPs and monitor the 500 errors. If human engagement remains near zero, consider whether bot traffic warrants mitigation.