2009/6/26 Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk:
2009/6/26 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/News_of_Michael_Jackson%27s_death_overloads_Inte...
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.