Techcrunch is reporting that CNN had a record traffic day yesterday with 27 million unique visitors and 276 million page views – an average day for CNN is 5 million visitors and 35 million page views.
According to Akamai (chart above) last night at 11pm Est. saw the highest demand for online news content ever recorded at 8.5 million “global visitors per minute”. This beat out the previous record of 7.3 million global visitors per minute on June 22, 2006 when the United States was eliminated by Ghana in the World Cup. Of the top 15 dates on Akamai’s list of “Highest Peaks based on total visitors per minute” 3 of those days were in 2008, 4 in 2007 and 8 in 2006.
[...] views from major news websites like CNN, ABC News and MSNBC – all of which saw a massive spike on traffic on election day. CNN.com alone had 27 unique visitors on election night with 276 million page views. Whether you [...]