The Monday after Thanksgiving, when workers return to their offices and speedy Internet connections, has become a big day for online retailers. Traffic this year was up 19% according to Akamai Technologies, a company that helps other companies send content over the Web. At 1:00 p.m. Central, traffic reached 2,145,558 visitors per minute and was still over 2 million at 8:00 p.m. last night.
The online shopping season has been very good, but some companies were not prepared. Wal-Mart's site was down for at least two hours on Black Friday. Wal-Mart said traffic was up 700% when the servers crashed and the company had only expected a 200% increase. Macy's site was down for an hour the same day, but the company claimed it was due to a bad server, not too much traffic.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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