November 03, 2004

Handling traffic

Posted by Eszter

It’s interesting to see how Web sites may alter their presence this evening to deal with their anticipated traffic. Earlier today when I visited Zogby International they still had all sorts of graphics on their front page. Now they just show their predictions on a text-only page. I’d be curious to hear if people have come across other sites that have altered their homepage content in anticipation of unusually large traffic tonight that they are not otherwise prepared to handle.

Posted on November 3, 2004 12:58 AM UTC
Comments

bbc sight has an vanilla html option - which works alot better.

Posted by Giles · November 3, 2004 01:04 AM

I worked for CNN.com from 1995-2000 and we had a protocol for a “light home page” whenever a big story broke (McVeigh verdict, Clinton impeachment, elections, etc.)

I expect every site has something similar.

Posted by paul · November 3, 2004 01:41 AM

The NY Times had an interactive election report that has now gone all text based - they haven’t changed the homepage but they have changed the election related information.

<a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/ref/elections2004/2004President.html

“>http://www.nytimes.com/ref/elections2004/2004President.html

Posted by hypatia cade · November 3, 2004 01:45 AM

Instapundit did that, I think.

Posted by George · November 3, 2004 05:33 PM
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