The news of Osama bin Laden's death was another very significant back-to-back for internet age today, relating to the recent royal wedding. The internet traffic was observed to have been jumped dramatically, for almost all the trendy U.S. news websites. And considering such great number of internet traffic, the outages and slowdowns were observed to be extremely less severe related to the traffic and situations at the time of other such previous news events in the past. This means that despite the extra-ordinary internet traffic, there were very few people which actually had to see any kind of error message.
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeKeynote Systems Inc. is company located in San Mateo, California which has been monitoring the trends of Internet traffic from a longtime now. The manager of company, Dave Karow, said reported that the first reason for such scenario are smartphones, as it was seen to be very helpful to spread the message of Osama’s death. This consequently means that more people attempted to scroll through the same news sites from their smart phones. Despite all these attempts were simultaneous, the web pages for smartphones are always displayed with slimmer version of the actual Web page, and this in turns reduces the load on the particular websites to a considerate degree.
Secondly, it was pointed out that just last week, the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was such a very helpful event in this scenario. Since plenty news organizations, which streamed the event live, had already expanded their Internet infrastructure in advance, for the wedding. Since the news organizations were already look forward to large number of page views for the wedding telecast, many had had kept the extra capacity they observed for the wedding. This extra-capacity for more views can be increased or decreased considering the needs of the website.
So Karow reported that since almost all the largest news outlets are being monitored by Keynote, he quoted that just one-third of the toal website ever experienced significant delays. It also quickly mentioned that these delays were also resolved quickly. The average slowdown for any news website was around only five seconds, whereas this number for mobile sites was even lesser to almost three seconds, Keynote mentioned.
Karow notified that "It wasn't like sites were completely cratered for hours." He went on explaining that "Within an hour, most sites were in pretty darn good condition and were serving pages pretty darn well. But it was within that first hour when they were seeing the most stress."
CNN.com was reported to have seen 88 million page views around the time the crucial news was being reported, i.e. from late Sunday to Monday. This was three times the usual page views CNN.com gets during that time. Even MSNBC.com also boasted that its page views were 38 percent more than ordinary page views of any Sunday. ABC News also claimed that both. Its website and wireless applications have recorded the largest number of traffic ever, for a complete hour, Observed during the 11 p.m. to midnight of Sunday.
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