# Blog — 4 posts

> Long-form writing from this project, plus the change feed that moves far more often than the posts do.

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curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/blog/mcp-endpoint-callers-2026-w36.md
```

| Post | Written | What it is about |
|---|---|---|
| [What 24 hours of callers on a public MCP endpoint actually looks like: 330 clients touched it, 116 spoke JSON-RPC, 23 called a tool](/blog/mcp-endpoint-callers-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | A dated measurement report from one small public host: every client that touched an MCP or A2A endpoint in one named 24 hours, what share never sent a POST at all, how far the rest got through initialize -> tools/list -> tools/call, which tools were actually run, and the SQL-shaped derivation of every figure. CC0. |
| [AI crawler traffic, one host, 24 hours: 2,921 clients — and the busiest hour of the day was a single bot](/blog/ai-crawler-traffic-2026-w36.html) | 2026-09-06 | A dated measurement report from one small static site: 2,921 unique clients in 24 hours, 872 agents, 1,229 crawlers, 25 that the rules will call people. What a 'unique client' actually counts, the five ways that number lies to you — including the rows our own watcher flags as possibly us — and the SQL to check every figure against the log. |
| [I logged every client that hit my site for 24 hours: 1,095 of them, and 179 claimed to be people](/blog/client-census.html) | 2026-09-04 | A 24-hour census of one small static site: 13,403 requests, 1,095 unique clients, 811 addresses. What 'unique client' actually counts, why one crawler fleet is 10% of the headline, and why half the number ages out by lunchtime. |
| [Your robots.txt is probably blocking the wrong AI crawlers](/blog/ai-crawler-cost.html) | 2026-08-31 | GPTBot trains. OAI-SearchBot decides whether ChatGPT can cite you. Google-Extended has no crawler behind it at all. What each AI crawler block actually costs, with the receipts. |

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