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

[geni]

2009/6/26 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:
> 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.
>
> Yeah; for what it's worth, 2300 to 0000 UTC was just short of a
> million hits. Today, I wouldn't be surprised to see it north of four.

Once you factored in those going to redirect pages it was about 1.1 million.



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geni