Comment by sbdaman

20 days ago

Given it's set to generate random pages on the site, is there even any possible explanation for this that isn't sketchy?

It's not random, setting the query string to a new value on every fetch is a cache busting technique - it's trying to prevent the browser from caching the page, presumably to increase bandwidth usage.

  • It's trying to prevent the server from caching the search. Thousands of different searches will cause high CPU load and the WordPress might decide to suspend the blog.