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Re: Google causes 40% drop in traffic?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Smith)
Fri Jan 24 15:16:48 2014

From: Michael Smith <mksmith@mac.com>
In-reply-to: <11055999.5376.1390594116454.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 12:16:34 -0800
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Jan 24, 2014, at 12:08 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:

> Given how much traffic these days is CDN and streaming, is that number
> really supportable?
>=20
> =
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/down-goes-google-down-goes-internet=

>=20

http://www.seattleix.net/agg.htm
http://www.torix.ca/stats.php

Obviously not definitive, but I don't see a massive drop in traffic =
during the outage, at least on the two public exchanges listed above. =20=


It would be interesting to see if there was a concurrent increase in =
traffic to other sites (Facebook, Yahoo, etc.) while people couldn't =
check their email.

Mike



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