Well done on your research yesterday. In anyone doesn't know, @rycharde was the hair breaking the camel's back on this I think! Your research tipped the balance.

I'm thinking of making a small standalone web app with a speedometer showing CRR, as well as historical values in a line chart. What do you think?

The witnesses have increased the block size and this is already making a difference, with the CRR moving from about 400 to 1200 in about 8 hours.

Some witnesses. I encourage everyone to check out the list on steemdb or steemd and consider changing your vote to those who support this, what is probably a temporary measure, but which is necessary now.

To be fair, I hope all the other bot owners would also consider turning off their bots, if they can!

You can't hope to get good data from this because you have no way of knowing how many bots are currently active, whether they were turned off and when, etc. Something else needs to be done here.

There is another issue: why this bandwidth limiter kicks in way below the network maximum? That is for another time.

Yes, when the average over a minute is above 1/4 of capacity. I would love to find out the reason for this too, maybe it's too conservative? Let's find out.