Site stats going mad

Sounds very likely it’s bot traffic, especially if traffic suddenly increased without any real-world reason. High CPU usage on a small site usually means too many automated requests (scrapers, spam bots, or even bad crawlers). First, check your server logs or analytics to see unusual IPs or spikes in requests. Quick fixes: enable bot protection (Cloudflare or similar), block suspicious IPs, and limit crawl rate via robots.txt. Also make sure there’s no brute-force or spam hitting login/forms.