Anyone knows/seeing this strange bump in traffic from Granada, Spain?

[Maayboli]

I have noticed a strange bump in traffic from August 14, coming from Granada Spain. I have a language specific website and there is no way I have suddenly thousands of readers in Granada. GA show the service provider is opera software asa and domain is opera-mini.net

I am wondering the location shown in GA as Granda, Spain is the correct one. Perhaps Opera is proxying the traffic through it proxy server located in Granda.

Or this is spammer trying to download content?

Anyone else has seen this?

[Cyrus-Shepard]

I can't speak to this specific traffic source, but it's very, very common to see strange bumps in traffic from unusual sources for short periods of time. 100 different reasons this could happen. Strange web configurations that accidentally link to you from every page of thier site, odd redirects, spambots gone bad, etc.

Almost always, it's harmless and you can typically ignore it, although it can play havoc with your reporting.