Michael Jackson Memorial Web Stats Rolling In

The statistics are beginning to roll in regarding the effects of Michael Jackson's memorial service on Internet traffic. Akamai: Courtesy of GigaOM, Akamai said its network experienced its second-largest day ever in terms of total traffic, delivering more than 2.185 million live and on-demand streams in both the Flash and Windows Media formats. The company added that total traffic on its network topped 2 terabits per second during the memorial service, and it delivered 548 gigabits per second of live and on-demand Flash streams. At 1 p.m. ET, when the service began, Akamai said there were about 3,924,370 visitors per minute, second only to the 4,247,971 global visitors per minute who visited news sites June 25 when the news of Jackson's death first reached the Internet. Twitter: Social-networking blogger Pete Cashmore said on his Mashable blog that tributes to Jackson accounted for almost 30% of total tweets. And AlertSite pointed out that Twitter only had a login-success rate around 50% during the 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. hours. Facebook: The combined Facebook-CNN.com effort totaled 500,000 status updates, 300,000 users logged in and some 6,000 status updates per minute, according to GigaOM. CNN.com later hiked the status-update figure to 733,000. And through a special application, Facebook users were able to talk about the service directly on ABCNEWS.com while watching the live stream of the event. Nearly 100,000 Facebook members joined the conversation about the memorial on ABCNEWS.com, generating about 50,000 status updates in total. CNN.com: Web-analytics company Omniture said that for all of Tuesday, CNN.com totaled 104.8 million page views, 15.6 million unique visitors and 10.5 million live video streams. CDN server logs indicated that CNN.com reached a peak of 781,000 concurrent live streams. ABC News Digital: ABC News Digital delivered a total of nearly 6 million live video streams of the Michael Jackson memorial service on ABCNEWS.com and across its partner sites including Yahoo!, Verizon, Charter, AT&T and RCN. The site streamed ABC News NOW, the network's digital channel's live coverage of the memorial. ABC News Digital also had an additional 5 million video views of Michael Jackson-related content on ABCNEWS.com, the ABC News-branded Channel on YouTube and on the ABC News iPhone application. UPDATED: MSNBC.com figures were updated at 3:15 p.m. ET Wednesday. MSNBC.com: MSNBC.com shattered its online-video-stream record Tuesday with nearly 19 million total streams from its coverage of the Michael Jackson memorial service. AlertSite: From GigaOM, the Web-traffic monitor reported "a few" errors for E! Online and TMZ, saying the response time for E! Online's homepage reached as high as 20.75 seconds at 2 p.m. ET, while TMZ's homepage response time reached 10.41 seconds at 10 a.m. Gomez: From GigaOM, the Web-monitoring company reported that the performance of the home pages of seven of the mainstream news-media sites from 12.45 p.m.-3 p.m. ET had availability that ranged as low as 98.2% even though the response time was slower than usual. Gomez pegged response times at 6.5-18.5 seconds versus usual levels of 3.5-7.3 seconds and said the sites experienced a great deal of rebuffering of videos: below 5% in the United States but as high as 40% in Asia. Ustream: As reported by TechCrunch, Ustream experienced 4.6 million total streams, 1.6 million total unique visitors and 12,000 messages per minute sent through chat/Ustream's Social Stream.

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