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Web users flock to UK sites for London blast news
By Jeffrey Goldfarb LONDON (Reuters) - Record numbers of visitors deluged British Web sites on Thursday as people around the world sought news of the blasts that rocked London's public transport. Sites operated by public broadcaster BBC, satellite TV company BSkyB (BSY.L: Quote, Profile, Research), news provider Reuters (RTR.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and the Financial Times business newspaper (PSON.L: Quote, Profile, Research) suffered longer delays on their home pages Thursday morning in London because of the volume, according to a company that monitors Web traffic. "There was a significant amount of turbulence in terms of performance," said Roopak Patel, an analyst at Keynote Systems. The BBC expects by the end of Thursday it will have had the most visitors in a single day in the history of its news Web site, though it won't have official data until Friday. "We have had a huge surge in people using the site today," BBC spokeswoman Naomi Luland said. "We are pretty certain this is going to be our busiest ever day."
The bbc.co.uk Web site experienced some delays, she added, but handled the volume well. "We haven't had any major problems. We've had consistency in service. There may have been a little slowdown earlier," Luland said. Among the other popular UK sites were sky.com/skynews, ft.com and reuters.com. By 3:15 p.m. (1415 GMT), Sky said it had registered 1.7 million unique visitors for the day. "That's the equivalent of a month's traffic on the site," Sky spokeswoman Stella Tooth said. "We had 25 million page impressions and the site was very robust and withstood the extra traffic," she added.
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