You could try to generate random names and facts for colors. Only readable by the bots.
Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
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Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#12Where does the 6^16 come from? There are only 16.7 million 24-bit RGB triples; naively, if you're treating 3-hexit and 6-hexit colours separately, that'd be 16,781,312 distinct pages. What am I missing?
6 positions, each 0-F value gives 6^16 options, yes?
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#13Where does the 6^16 come from? There are only 16.7 million 24-bit RGB triples; naively, if you're treating 3-hexit and 6-hexit colours separately, that'd be 16,781,312 distinct pages. What am I missing?
6 positions, each 0-F value gives 6^16 options, yes?
Not really.
When numbers repeat, the value is the same. E.g 00 is the same as 00.
So the possible outcomes is 6^16, but unique values per color channel is only 256 values.
So unique colors are 256^3 = 16.7M colors.
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
6 positions, each 0-F value gives 6^16 options, yes?
Not really. When numbers repeat, the value is the same. E.g 00 is the same as 00. So the possible outcomes is 6^16, but unique values per color channel is only 256 values. So unique colors are 256^3 = 16.7M colors.
Yes, each possible 6^16 outcome is it's own subpage...
/000000 /000001 /000002 /000003 etc...
Or am I missing something?
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. When numbers repeat, the value is the same. E.g 00 is the same as 00. So the possible outcomes is 6^16, but unique values per color channel is only 256 values. So unique colors are 256^3 = 16.7M colors.
Yes, each possible 6^16 outcome is it's own subpage... /000000 /000001 /000002 /000003 etc... Or am I missing something?
you mean 16^6
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#16Collect the User Agent strings. Publish your findings.
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#17so it's a honeypot except they get stuck on the rainbow and never get to the pot of gold
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not really. When numbers repeat, the value is the same. E.g 00 is the same as 00. So the possible outcomes is 6^16, but unique values per color channel is only 256 values. So unique colors are 256^3 = 16.7M colors.
Yes, each possible 6^16 outcome is it's own subpage... /000000 /000001 /000002 /000003 etc... Or am I missing something?
16^6 == 256^3 == 2^24 == 16,777,216
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#19Unless your website has real humans visiting it, there's not a lot of value, I am afraid. The idea of many dynamically generated pages isn't new or unique. IPInfo[1] has 4B sub-pages for every IPv4 address. CompressJPEG[2] has lot of sub-pages to answer the query, "resize image to a x b". ColorHexa[3] has sub-pages for all hex colors. The easiest way to monetize is signup for AdSense and throw some ads on the page.
[1]: https://ipinfo.io/185.192.69.2
Re: Ask HN: Website with 6^16 subpages and 80k+ daily bots
#20This is a bit of a stretch of how you are defining sub-pages. It is a single page with calculated content based on URL. I could just echo URL parameters to the screen and say that I have infinite subpages if that is how we define thing. So no - what you have is dynamic content.
Which is why I'd answer your question by recommending that you focus on the bots, not your content. What are they? How often do they hit the page? How deep do they crawl? Which ones respect robots.txt, and which do not?
Go create some bot-focused data. See if there is anything interesting in there.