[WikiEN-l] Internet traffic spikes due to Michael Jackson's death

[geni]

2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Internet_sites_and_sparks_hoaxes
>
> Is there anything anywhere (apart from the long thread on ANI) about
> the effect on traffic for Wikipedia?
>
> Ah. Here we go:
>
> http://stats.grok.se/en/200906/Michael_Jackson
>
> 6.4K hits to to 1.4M.
>
> That's a traffic spike right enough.
>
> Carcharoth

I think we will see an even bigger one when we get the stats for
today. Page was at over 1 million views an hour a peak.


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geni