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Web Traffic Snarls Sites on Black Friday
eweekhickins writes "A surge of e-commerce traffic on Thanksgiving night and all day Friday apparently caught several retail giants by surprise, with Lowe's, Macys and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. In fact, almost a third of leading retailers suffered significant slowdowns on Black Friday, according to statistics released this weekend by Keynote Competitive Research, a firm that tracks Web site performance."
Who would have guessed that tens of thousands of people trying to use a website all at once would cause it to slow down?
Would someone please think of the panties!
Seriously though, I'll be really pissed if my S.O. tried to order some for herself and couldn't.
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victoriassecret.com was working fine last time I checked. For research.
Write your own Choose Your Own Adventure. http://www.freegameengines.org/gamebook-engine/
as compared to the physical locations which were just as fast as normal and didn't have long waits while shopping.....
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
"Consumers might also be more patient with a graphic-intensive site that has images they truly want to see. Victoria's Secret, for example, experienced a huge slowdown Thursday night--from a 5-second response to a 15-second response--but White speculated that its customers might be more tolerant of delays because they're expecting a more graphic-intensive experience, and the delay is thus worth waiting through."
Right, I tolerated the delays because VS is simply "graphic-intensive". Uh-huh... yeah, that's it.
my moderation luck sucks lately. hasn't been this bad since I wrote a javascript is awesome post.
...with Lowe's, Macys and Victoria's Secret especially hard hit. Black Friday has nothing to do with it. I like to "research" what I would buy a hypothetical girlfriend, should I have one, every Friday. The only difference was that I had all of this Friday free.Uh, I mean, that's what I imagine some theoretical person might have been doing.
Look! A beowulf cluster! *runs*
My old Everquest guild had one of those first Monday every month. Let's just say I didn't get too much questing done them days, knowwhudIUmean?
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
That's a feature. Good way to FORCE a shopper to buy something. In the brick & mortar store I used to work at we used krazy glue.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Actually, senators are surprisingly affordable, especially compared to a plumber.
CATS/Diebold '08- All your vote are belong to us!
I went shopping on Black Friday a few years ago. My general comment has been that I will only do it again if I'm armed. Those people are freaking crazy. It's like a bunch of rabid Tasmanian devils...
Everything I need to know I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains.
I can't help thinking it sounds more like a stock market crash than a "good thing".
Definitely puts Black Sabbath in a whole new light for me. So much for the "70s cool evil schtick", they were just making a financial statement.
i\hbar\dot{\psi}=\hat{H}\psi
Compared to plumbers, it's surprisingly affordable to have elves visit from the future to build you a robot from solid gold bars.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
My favorite example of this: when the pope died, and the College of Cardinals met to vote on the new pope. Once the white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney (indicating that the ballots had been burned and a new pope elected), the Vatican web site got HAMMERED. I looked, and then looked back a little later, and instead of seeing the web site, I only saw two words at the top of the screen:
It's Ratzinger.
Now that's a simplified interface.
"Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"