Google Reader Outage - Did Your Traffic Fall Yesterday?

June 26th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Blogging • Everton • Internet News

Tags: feed, Google, RSS

Google Reader suffered a major outage yesterday and many feeds weren’t updated. Luckily Downloadsquad made it through otherwise I wouldn’t have realised, although I did think something strange was going on as I cleared all my feeds out in a record 15 minutes.

It’ll be interesting to hear if your traffic was down on Monday, given that Google reader is the market’s number one RSS reader. My traffic was down, and I also noticed that I didn’t receive as many comments yesterday as usual.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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   Comment by listikal on 26 June 2007:

   You know, mine was down significantly on Saturday too. I guess I’m getting a true feel for how much of my traffic comes from there.
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   Comment by horisly on 26 June 2007:

   yesterday i had no time to online, so i don’t notice the outage.
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   Comment by Brown Baron on 26 June 2007:

   It’s funny you mentioned that. I was complaining to my wife about it and she was just looking at me like I was crazy haha.
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   Comment by Angie on 26 June 2007:

   Come to think of it, yes. Very much so. It always feels good to see a possible reason behind traffic lows.
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   Comment by Nirmal on 26 June 2007:

   Even mine was significantly down. I knew it would the problem with Google Fetcher.
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   Comment by Rob O. on 28 June 2007:

   Oddly enough, Monday (6/25) has been - at least according to Google Analytics - my peak day over the past 5 days. Monday’s traffic was a fair bit better than average. Strange, eh?

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