This matches exactly with what I'm seeing on my own sites too and it's from all over the world, not just China. (I described my bot woes a few weeks ago at htt

This matches exactly with what I'm seeing on my own sites too and it's from all over the world, not just China. (I described my bot woes a few weeks ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208623 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208623. The "just block bots!" replies were well-intentioned but naive -- I've still found no signal that works reliably well to distinguish bots from real traffic.)