December website report.

General plugin updates

Pages updated with new designs. Whitepapers and partners pages are both getting re-designed (work in progress)

WordPress updated to 6.9

Core theme updated. 6.7.9 Update to 6.7.10

Cloudflare Security Report

Month-over-Month Summary

Total Traffic
↓ 64.0%
159.0k vs 442.3k
Threats
↑ 8,468%
7.54k vs 88
Threat Rate
↑ 4.72%
4.74% vs 0.02%
Top Country
No Change
US remains #1

Traffic Overview (30 Days)

Total Requests

159.0k

↓ 64.0% vs Last Month (442.3k)

Top Country

United States

↓ 62.9% 81.4k vs 219.7k

Security (30 Days)

Total Threats Stopped

7.54k

↑ 8,468% vs 88

China now top

Threat Rate

4.74%

↑ 4.72% vs 0.02%

Needs attention

Bot Activity (30 Days)

Bing Bot

542

NEW vs 0

50.7% of bot traffic

Google Bot

404

NEW vs 0

37.8% of bot traffic

Threat Analysis (30 Days)

China Threats

3.30k

↑ 16,375% vs 20

43.7% of threats

Russia Threats

1.54k

NEW vs 0

20.4% of threats

Geographic Traffic Changes (This Month vs Last Month)

United States ↓ 62.9%
81.4k (This)
219.7k (Last)
-138.3k requests
Singapore NEW
30.7k (This)
India 132.8k (Last)
Replaced India
Germany ↓ 14.9%
23.1k (This)
27.2k (Last)
-4.1k requests
Japan NEW
15.3k (This)
Ireland 44.4k (Last)
Replaced Ireland
Australia NEW
8.5k (This)
France 18.1k (Last)
Replaced France

Top Threat Sources Changes (This Month vs Last Month)

China ↑ 16,375%
3.30k (This)
20 (Last)
+3,275 threats
Russia NEW
1.54k (This)
Pakistan 47 (Last)
+1,491 threats
Vietnam NEW
956 (This)
Netherlands 20 (Last)
+936 threats
Brazil NEW
858 (This)
Ukraine 1 (Last)
+857 threats
Italy NEW
181 (This)
0 (Last)
+181 threats

Google Analytics - User Acquisition (30 Days)

Total Users

794

Dec 3, 2025 - Jan 1, 2026

New Users

776

97.7% of total

Returning Users

34

4.3% of total

Avg Engagement

14s

0.29 sessions/user

User Acquisition by Channel (30 Days)

Direct
588 users
Share: 74.1%
Engagement: 11s
Events: 2,782
Email
117 users
Share: 14.7%
Engagement: 4s
Events: 496
Organic Search
73 users
Share: 9.2%
Engagement: 51s
Events: 549
Referral
13 users
Share: 1.6%
Engagement: 40s
Events: 82
Organic Social
2 users
Share: 0.3%
Engagement: 2m 35s
Events: 95

Bot Crawlers Comparison

Bing
542
50.7% NEW
Google
404
37.8% NEW
AppleBot
110
10.3% NEW
Twitter
7
0.7% NEW
LinkedIn
4
0.4% NEW

Security Summary Changes

Threat Rate
4.74%
7.54k of 159k ↑4.72%
China
43.7%
Top threat source ↑16,375%
Russia
20.4%
2nd threat source NEW
Vietnam
12.7%
3rd threat source NEW

Key Insights & Month-over-Month Changes

  • Security significantly degraded with 8,468% increase in threats (88 → 7,540), raising threat rate from 0.02% to 4.74%.
  • China became dominant threat with 16,375% surge (20 → 3,295 attacks), now representing 43.7% of all threats.
  • Russia re-emerged as major threat source with 1,538 attacks (20.4% of threats), replacing Pakistan.
  • Traffic dropped 64.0% (442.3k → 159.0k), likely due to geographic shifts and reduced bot activity.
  • Asia-Pacific expansion: Singapore, Japan, and Australia replaced India, Ireland, and France in top 5 traffic sources.
  • Bot crawlers returned with Bing (542) and Google (404) resuming legitimate indexing activity after complete absence last month.

Google Analytics Insights

  • Direct traffic still dominates with 74.1% of users but engagement dropped from 4m 33s to 11 seconds.
  • Email marketing emerged as second-largest channel with 14.7% of traffic (117 users, 496 events).
  • Organic search engagement improved to 51 seconds, showing quality traffic despite lower volume (73 users, 9.2%).
  • Overall engagement dropped dramatically from 2m 50s to 14 seconds average, indicating potential UX or content issues.
  • High new user rate continues at 97.7% (776 of 794), but retention remains very low at 4.3%.