Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global traffic

https://engineering.gosquared.com/googles-downtime-40-drop-in-traffic

by simontabor • 13 years ago

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j_baker• 13 years ago

Ahem... Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global (to gosquared) traffic. I think the title is misleading under this context.

Oculus• 13 years ago

I think you misunderstood, they were saying that overall there was a 40% decrease in hits to websites that use GoSquared's analytics.

"had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared’s real-time tracking"

JoeCortopassi• 13 years ago

Wonder if that is the same reason why the HN thread talking about the outage was killed as well /sarcasm

mgaphysics• 13 years ago

I get it and no disrespect, but not sure that I would need an analytics provider to know what happens when google goes down for any period of time.

I guess I was hoping to see a bit of analysis as to options available to compensate for these instances. I kinda already knew that we rely on a handful of major players for everything, the hope that we can effect some change in that structure is why we hack-on!

lucb1e• 13 years ago

The AMS-IX (one of the world's largest internet peering exchanges) does not show so much as a dent.

Google's downtime caused a 40% drop in global traffic

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