UK News Sites Flooded

This week's tragic bombings in London saw unprecedented visits to UK news sites. From ComputerWorld.com:

"“The availability of the BBC site was down to 81%, and the response times to load their home page, which normally takes 1 second to load, was as high as 15 seconds on average during that four-hour period....Keynote tracked the U.K. Web sites of Bloomberg.com, the Financial Times and Sky News, said spokeswoman Della Lowe, and at one point, it took over 40 seconds to download the home pages of the Financial Times and Sky News.

From 9:44 a.m. to 1:14 a.m., London time, only about one in four readers could access the Financial Times site, Keynote said. From 10:44 a.m. to 11:44 a.m. London time, the BBC site was also available to only about one in four readers. As for Sky News, it fared even worse: At one point, it was accessible by only about one in six viewers, Keynote said."

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