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Originally Posted by |Zach|
USA vs Algeria World Cup Match Could Set New Internet Traffic Record
http://mashable.com/2010/06/23/usa-v...ria-world-cup/
The dramatic ending to the World Cup match between the USA and Algeria could set a new record for Internet traffic.
We’ve been watching Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which tracks visitors per minute on more than 100 of the major news sites in Akamai’s network. In the minutes following Landon Donovan’s game winning goal in the 91st minute of action (which sent the U.S. to the round of 16), traffic spiked to 11.2 million visitors per minute, which moves the event past the 2008 presidential election as the second highest traffic spike of all-time.
Today’s number was also likely pushed significantly higher because England and Slovenia were also playing a suspenseful World Cup match at the same time. The plethora of World Cup breaking news briefly knocked Yahoo Sports offline and also caused issues at Twitter –- though the latter has been somewhat of a regular occurrence during the World Cup (on a related note, tweets containing “USA” spiked to 6% of total tweet volume).
The overall traffic record was set earlier this month during the first day of World Cup action, where traffic exceeded 12 million visitors per minute. We’ll wait and see what the final numbers are from Akamai, but for the moment, it looks like Donovan’s goal will go down in Internet history at least as a solid number two.
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I tried explaining to somebody on Facebook who said that this was only big because we don't have a huge soccer history that, had Brazil been in the same situation as us and done the same thing, it would easily have been one of the best moments in Brazilian soccer history.
Nice to see the U.S. and the World interested in Soccer.
Imagine if we could somehow make the final 4, how much money US soccer would get. It would only help.