


Michael Jackson’s Memorial
Online Traffic Pushes Internet’s Limits
Michael Jackson’s memorial held today at the Staples Center in Los Angeles turned out to be one of the biggest online events, according to various reports.
Akamai says that it was the second largest day in terms of total traffic on its network. Akamai delivered more than 2,185,000 live and on-demand streams in both the Flash and Windows Media formats. Total traffic on the Akamai network surpassed a rate of more than 2 terabits per second during the memorial service.
Akamai says that it delivered 548 Gbps of live and on-demand Flash streams utilizing Adobe Flash technology.
There were about 3,924,370 visitors per minute at 1 p.m. EST and more than 3.3 million visitors per minute. That is second only to the 4,247,971 global visitors per minute who visited news sites on June 25th when the news of Michael Jackson first hit the web.
Unlike June 25th, there weren’t many outages reported, but there were widespread slowdowns. According to Gomez, a company that monitors the web, the performance of the home pages of seven of the mainstream news media sites between the hours of 12.45-3pm EST had availability that ranged as low as 98.2% even though the response time was slower than usual.
Response time (page load times) ranged from 6.5 seconds to 18.5 seconds (usually spans 3.5-7.3 seconds,) according to Gomez. However, when it comes to live streaming, Gomez saw lots of rebuffering (i.e.. video ‘stalling issues’) at these news sites — with time spent waiting rather than watching was below 5% in US but as hight as 40% in Asia.
RIP michael Jackson.
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