News sites swamped following Michael Jackson's death

The traffic numbers are starting to roll now, and it appears that online news sites fared poorly handling the influx of traffic after the death of singer Michael Jackson.

Keynote Systems, a company that tracks the effectiveness of a website, it is understood that the review, which covers more than 30 on-line news services covering the existence of the association shows that, on average, fell 86 percent from 100 percent. Average time to enter the homepage of the upper half of the sites jumped 4.2 seconds to 8 / 9 seconds.

Shawn White, director of the main ideas of foreign operations, said one of you that saw the largest decrease in missed work and was CBSnews.com Latimes.com ABCNews.com.

"ABCNews.com went as low as 11 percent from about two hours," said White.

If the news is the death of an iconic performer began trickling out, the results of people to return to the web news. TMZ broke the news of Jackson, 50, known for producing some of the best-selling world, including the "melodrama" and "bad", died Thursday afternoon, but the gossip hub unidentified sources cited, and only offered a few details. While the story of the attention given to other news services on the Web and the public to know more about the condition of the book, several websites began slowing down.

Some users complained that the Google News search engine area inaccessible for some time.

Google representatives confirmed that "about 2:40 PDT and 3:15 PDT today, Google News users to experienced difficulties in accessing the results of research questions related to Michael Jackson."

CNN.com seemed slow at the time of distributing Jackson songs. In defense of her news organization, said the area was 20 million page views and an increase five times in little more than an hour (from where it was before the news of Jackson's death was widely circulated).

Even before Jackson's death on Thursday was a great day for news sites, such as word hit the death of actress Farrah Fawcett wiring in the morning and continued interest in the scandal in South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.

Traffic deluge came quickly and lasted about half an hour, according to data internal to the CNET News, when twice the usual hourly traffic immediately after word spread of Jackson's death. On CBSNews.com sister site, traffic numbers were five times its normal level.