BBC News’ ‘Most Popular Now’ traffic map

February 20th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Traffic

Hadn’t come across this before, so thought I’d share this map form the BBC showing the most popular news stories on the BBC News website:

Screenshot of BBC live traffic map

The map can be filtered by continent (and the UK) to show the top 10 ‘most popular’ and ‘most emailed’ BBC News articles.

There’s also a speedometer indicating how traffic to the site is compared to ‘normal’ levels = compared with the recent traffic average for that time of day calculated from the BBC News Live Stats system.

At time of writing (12:38pm GMT) it shows us that ‘Goody’s fiance’s curfew relaxed’ is the most popular worldwide story, but that worldwide traffic to the site is 35 per cent below normal.

Plus you can see how the number of stories viewed on BBC News online yesterday dropped at peak time when the site went down.

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One Response to “BBC News’ ‘Most Popular Now’ traffic map”

Where To Find The Most Popular News Stories On The Web | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Says:

July 10th, 2009 at 6:11 am
[...] BBC News has a neat Live World Map that shows what news is popular in what part of the world at anytime. Here is a good explanation about how it works. [...]

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