Obama’s inauguration affects user traffic


	Obama’s inauguration affects user traffic

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2-13-2009 11:28 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/862736c4-1d60-4792-8db4-41b0b3965f97/836E642C-8B9F-4B3D-917B-A10C83FDAD29/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html" href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html" style="font-size: 11px;">radar.oreilly.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html">One of the most interesting parts of running a large website is watching the effects of unrelated events affecting user traffic in aggregate.  </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html">John Allspaw recently created a <A href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/webopsviz/pool/">WebOps Visualizations</A> group on Flickr for sharing these kinds of graphs with the confidential information removed.  Here’s an example of a traffic drop seen both by <A href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</A> & by <A href="http://www.last.fm">Last.FM</A> that coincided with <A href="http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/themoment/">President Obama’s inauguration</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/radar.oreilly.com/img/B7CEC445-C248-4770-899E-F212FDCD79C9" alt="John Allspaw shows drop in web traffic to Flickr during Obama inauguration" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html"><H3>Similar traffic drop on Last.FM seen on the right</H3>
<P><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesserobbins/3256627778/in/photostream"><IMG title="Traffic Drop to Last.FM during Obama inauguration on right" alt="Traffic Drop to Last.FM during Obama inauguration on right" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/3256627778_18622909ff.jpg" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html"><H3>Google saw a similar drop as well</H3>
<P><A href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/search-findings-from-us-presidential.html"><IMG title="Google Search drops during Obama Inauguration" alt="Traffic Drop to Google during Obama Inauguration" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3256326215_3918e6346e.jpg" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/webops-culture-graphs-data-obama-lastfm.html"><H3>Was it because everybody went to Twitter?</H3>
<P><A href="http://blog.twitter.com/2009/01/inauguration-day-on-twitter.html"><IMG title="Traffic Spike on Twitter during Obama Inauguration" alt="Traffic Spike on Twitter during Obama Inauguration" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3304/3257157072_2632b5df3f.jpg" /></A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/836E642C-8B9F-4B3D-917B-A10C83FDAD29/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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