{"id":3335,"date":"2013-08-19T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2013-08-19T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T12:54:12","slug":"a-brief-google-outage-made-total-internet-traffic-drop-by-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2013\/08\/19\/a-brief-google-outage-made-total-internet-traffic-drop-by-40\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Google Outage Made Total Internet Traffic Drop By 40%"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, Google<\/a> suffered a power outage<\/a> on Friday evening. Old news, you may say. But that small act, where all of its services\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u201cthat’s YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Google Drive\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwere unreachable for a few minutes, cut Internet traffic by 40%. That is an amazing figure. <\/p>\n

The LEDs went out in Googleland, so to speak, at around 4:37 p.m. PST, and the blackout lasted for anything between one and five minutes, according to Google’s Apps Dashboard<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u201cyou can see a screenshot of its red\u00e2\u20ac\u201clight status below. <\/p>\n

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According to analytics firm GoSquared, the five minutes of downtime caused<\/a> a drop in traffic of 40%, before spiking “as users managed to get to their destination.”<\/p>\n

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So, Google suffered a power outage on Friday evening. Old news, you may say. But that small act, where all of its services\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u201cthat’s YouTube, Gmail, Google Search, Google Drive\u00e2\u20ac\u201c\u00e2\u20ac\u201cwere unreachable for a few minutes, cut Internet traffic by 40%. That is an amazing figure. The LEDs went out in Googleland, so to speak, at around … <\/p>\n

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