: Strange usage pattern: UK user accessing 1 page X times every 14hrs – who/what can it be? For about two week I find a strange pattern in my web statistics: approximately every 14 hours a

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For about two week I find a strange pattern in my web statistics: approximately every 14 hours a user from the UK visits one of my websites and accesses only the page about privacy. He/she/it stays for some 20 minutes, seems to reload the page a couple of times – and then vanishes. I'm wondering if anybody else has ever seen such a pattern? And who/what can cause this pattern? And for what reason? Should I be concerned?

As you can see in the screenshot, according to the stats the visitor uses Chrome 64 browser on Linux. About an hour before this visit there are always two other visitors: one using Windows 10 / IE 11 and the other has the same settings as the "privacy user", but different screen resolution.

I tagged this question with "googlebot" and "crawlers" because I fist thought this was typical bot behavior – but why would the bot stay on the privacy page? Also I checked for attacks and manipulations – but nothing seems to be corrupt – so I suppose (hope!) this is not an attack of any kind. Any suggestions/pointers appreciated. Thank you!

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