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Even in death the overwhelming popularity of Michael Jackson seemingly knows no bounds. Specifically, the online performance of major headline providers in the United States was reduced to a veritable crawl yesterday when news of the King of Pop’s demise first hit the Internet.
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According to Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet test and measurement solutions, the monitoring of 10 cities across the U.S. showed that a sudden rush of online demand resulted in the likes of ABC, AOL and CBS suffering a significant shortfall in service efficiency amounting to almost 10 percent of normal availability.
“Beginning at 5:30pm (EDT), the average speed for downloading news sites doubled from less than four seconds to almost nine seconds,” outlined Shawn White, director of external operations at Keynote Systems.
“During the same period, the average availability of sites on the index dropped from almost 100% to 86%,” he added. “The index returned to normal by 9:15pm (EDT).”
Sites affected by the drop off and monitored by the Keynote News Web Site Performance Index included major headline providers ABC, AOL, CBS, CNN Money, MSNBC, NBC, SF Chronicle, and Yahoo! News.
After enduring several years of frailty and illness, 50-year-old Michael Jackson died yesterday after reportedly suffering a massive cardiac arrest at his rented residence in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles.
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