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

[Risker]

2009/6/26 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>

> 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?
>
>
[[Wikipedia:Popular pages]] -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popular_pages You can check the
history for prior hours.

Two thirds of the most popular pages in the past hour are related to Michael
Jackson.

Risker