August 18, 2013 at 01:11Google fell by two minutes - the volume of world traffic decreased by 40%
Yesterday at 03.51 Moscow time, all Google services, including search, went offline for 1-5 minutes. This is clearly visible in the Apps Status Dashboard monitoring service . It would seem that it’s okay - just about two minutes. However, such an event could not but affect other Internet sites.
The service of collecting data from GoSquared counters recorded a total decrease in website traffic by 40%. The graph clearly shows a sharp drop and then a jump in traffic:
At the time Google turned off in Russia, it was a deep night, so the event went unnoticed. But in the USA it was the end of the working day, the reaction of users was immediate - Twitter quickly filled with messages like “Google is not working, you can go home!”.
Google has not yet commented on disabling its services for a few minutes. According to experts, this event cost the corporation more than $ 500 thousand.
Such results of just a two-minute shutdown make you wonder: what if it lasts an hour? Day? A week?
The service of collecting data from GoSquared counters recorded a total decrease in website traffic by 40%. The graph clearly shows a sharp drop and then a jump in traffic:
At the time Google turned off in Russia, it was a deep night, so the event went unnoticed. But in the USA it was the end of the working day, the reaction of users was immediate - Twitter quickly filled with messages like “Google is not working, you can go home!”.
Google has not yet commented on disabling its services for a few minutes. According to experts, this event cost the corporation more than $ 500 thousand.
Such results of just a two-minute shutdown make you wonder: what if it lasts an hour? Day? A week?