So I just received in about 20 minutes time 8000 hits on my site. I was watching this is google analytics real time.
All of the sudden, a page with 100 or so people on it, had a string appear at the end of the url like this.
website.com/page?wprptest=0 ( 100 active users )
I thought it was strange, then all the sudden it kind of went nuts, and i had 5 or 6 versions of the same page with different strings, like this...
website.com/page?wprptest=0 ( 100 active users )
website.com/page?wprptest=1 ( 80 active users )
website.com/page?wprptest=2 ( 20 active users )
website.com/page?wprptest=3 ( 23 active users )
website.com/page?wprptest=4 ( 43 active users )
Im running wordpress, and havent made any changes recently. I use Yoast SEO, W3 Total Cache, and cloudflare. I keep racking my brain but can't figure out where these came from. Anyone have any ideas? During this strange occurrence, I also received about 3x as much traffic as I normally do.