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

[Carcharoth]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, geni<geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Where do the hourly hits stats come from?

Carcharoth