Black Friday Turns Servers Dark at Wal-Mart, Macys
Written by Evan SchumanNovember 24th, 2006
Two key E-Commerce leaders—walmart.com and macys.com—found themselves shut out of the holiday sales rush for much of Friday, as their sites slowed to a crawl starting at about 4 AM in the East.
Keynote Systems, which tracks Web traffic, saw the Wal-Mart site "effectively down" from 4:30 AM Friday (East Coast time) until 2:30 PM Friday, said Ben Rushlo, a Keynote senior manager of competitive research. In the morning, Rushlo said, the site of the nation's largest retailer was eight times slower than normal, with many unable to even reach the homepage. "Every request was either completely down—with an error message—or unusually slow," he said. To read the full story,
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