nathanvj on "200k visitors/bots? How do I stop it? Does it cause problems?"

I have a blog and I have this 'Quick stats' gadget on my WordPress Dashboard.

This is how it looks:
http://i63.tinypic.com/fw5dv.png

I have 200k visitors per month, but that is not true. I don't even promote my website yet.
So they are probably bots/crawlers.

But my website is VERY VERY slow lately. Literally takes long to load and almost always my hosting runs out of sources.

So I thought that maybe these crawlers/bots are the reason my website is so slow. :-(
Is that true? How can I stop this?

You can installed a plugin like WordFence which will give you live stats and other security tools. It could be you have a bot trying a brute force attack on your admin login.

Do you have Google analytics installed that might be useful.

Hey! Thanks for the fast reply. Yeah I don't know if that will change the speed of my site, I don't want to cause more delay by installing more plugins.

I have Google Analytics installed and it only shows like 20 visitors per day.