The web's number crunchers are starting to measure how Internet users tuned into online royal wedding coverage and as expected, droves woke up early to witness the event.
According to the company Akamai, there was a peak of 5,398,731 page views a minute at about 9:30 a.m. ET, which ranks sixth on its list of high-traffic web events.
Akamai says this morning's rush of traffic was about 43 per cent higher than normal.
Meanwhile, Canadian company Sandvine says it measured an increase in video traffic that was more than 20 per cent greater than the same time last week.
Akamai has been keeping track of traffic surges since 2005 and says the No. 1 web event had nearly double the online interest of what was tracked this morning.
The afternoon of June 24, 2010 still holds the record with 10,357,646 page views a minute. But that busy web day had several high-profile sports events occurring simultaneously, including World Cup qualifying games and a record-setting Wimbledon match.
