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Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently on the site before GA topped out.
by whyleyc 6y ago
Estimated that >1% of the UK population (769K) were concurrently on the site before GA topped out.
- taneq 6y agoThat doesn’t sound like that much compared with the normal loads that GA handles every day, though? Gold star to the UK gov team for their bit holding up so well though.
- hnlmorg 6y agoIts not. In a previous job I used to run fantasy sports games and one football World Cup we saw a spike sharper and faster than the one described on GOV.UK today due to two successive goals from a top player just as the half time whistle went. GA handled that spike just fine but if it wasn't for Akamai our site would have been toast. I'm not taking anything away from the engineers behind GOV.UK though. They do an excellent job.