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On election night, Akamai showed record traffic to news sites.(Credit: Akamai Technologies)
Intense interest in the outcome of the U.S. presidential election helped drive record traffic to online news sites, according to Akamai Technologies.
At 8 p.m. PST, just as word was coming that Barack Obama had won the election, Akamai's Net Usage Index showed more than 8.5 million worldwide visitors per minute to the company's aggregate set of news sites. Not all of the traffic, of course, may have been specifically to election coverage, but the relative audience size in the index does correlate strongly to particular events.
Tuesday night's total was a big jump from the previous record of 7.3 million, set in June 2006 when Ghana eliminated the U.S. in a World Cup soccer event. Sporting events--most notably the U.S. March Madness basketball tournament--dominate Akamai's top 15 results for visitors per minute. Read more...
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