The aftermath

Yesterday was a truly exceptional day. Our editorial team slaved away, our systems team kept everything running, and everyone pitched in with help wherever they could. Needless to say, it was a record day for traffic, but one of the most poignant things I looked at on our stats platform was where the traffic came from by city. The biggest traffic source was London. The second biggest was New York. And the third biggest was…Madrid. Linked by atrocity, but linked nevertheless.

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2 Responses to “The aftermath”

  • pieman Says:
    July 8th, 2005 at 10:57 am

    Thanks for sharing. Although logical, I don’t know why that surprises me.

  • currybetdotnet Says:
    July 11th, 2005 at 10:19 pm

    UK News Website Traffic On 7th July 2005
    More figures have been emerging in the press about the volume of news-seeking traffic there was on the internet last Thursday following the terrorist attack on London - Record traffic to BBC News site The figures reflect the findings of Hitwise, which …