Tuesday's funeral for the King of Pop produced a pop for traffic on the Internet and some key web sites - - with his adoring throngs and news watchers clicking in for live blogging, live streaming, live tweeting and, oh yeah, regular business on the Web.
In an email, Ken Godskind, Chief Strategy Officer at AlertSite, a web performance management company, informs us that some key sites did see some performance issues while reporting of Michael Jackson's Staples Center memorial was underway.
"E!Online and TMZ reported a few errors during the noon – 2PM EST period. The response time for E!Online’s homepage reached as high as 20.75 seconds at 2PM EST. TMZ’s homepage response time reached 10.41 seconds at 10AM EST. Errors appear to be related to third party content. E!Online reported significant page errors from between 12:36 PM EST and 1:54 PM EST which appeared to be related to Twitter, Facebook and Doubleclick content. TMZ.com reported errors from 1:13 PM – 1:19 PM EST which appeared to be related to iclips trying to load Michael Jackson memorial video. Overall we saw about a 10% uptick in response times on average for the sites we were monitoring," Godskind said in his email note.
"Even Twitter was affected, with login success in the 50 percent range during the 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. hours (EST)," Godskind said.
The web site Internetpulse.net, which is run by Internet performance monitoring company Keynote Systems, reported a little more packet loss than usual in various points on the Internet during the afternoon, but overall origin and destination locations between service providers seemed to run smoothly and with little latency. "Overall the Internet is performing ok" according to Keynote's own business index.
Did you, your colleagues or any of your customers notice any blips during the same hours as the Jackson memorial?
