{"id":87341,"date":"2009-12-17T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/a_day_in_the_life_of_nytimescom_visualizing_web_traffic_data.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T18:01:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T23:01:55","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-nytimes-com-visualizing-website-traffic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87341","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com: Visualizing Website Traffic Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"nytimes_web_log.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/nytimes_web_log.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/17\/a-day-in-the-life-of-nytimescom\/\">A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com<\/a>&#8221; [bits.blogs.nytimes.com] includes two videos (also shown <a href=\"http:\/\/infosthetics.com\/archives\/2009\/12\/a_day_in_the_life_of_nytimescom_visualizing_web_traffic_data.html#extended\">below<\/a>) that show the traffic to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\">NYTimes.com<\/a> on June 25, 2009, the day <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_of_Michael_Jackson\">Michael Jackson died<\/a>. While on video focuses on US-only traffic, the other has a worldwide view. The animated maps also include a subtle visual hint of night time by revealing the city illumination at night.The 24-hour period of web log data is compressed into a little over a minute and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The data used to create these maps come from roughly 15 Web servers. Some of the mobile bursts on the maps are a result of compressing the data.<\/p>\n<p>Thnkx Owen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mmt_PnDHlDyOkmYTF6n9r6CMmzI\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mmt_PnDHlDyOkmYTF6n9r6CMmzI\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mmt_PnDHlDyOkmYTF6n9r6CMmzI\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Mmt_PnDHlDyOkmYTF6n9r6CMmzI\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:nQ_hWtDbxek\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=nQ_hWtDbxek\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.infosthetics.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?a=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/infosthetics?i=H6QS1UkC73g:ujtphZcPWBI:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/infosthetics\/~4\/H6QS1UkC73g\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Day in the Life of NYTimes.com&#8221; [bits.blogs.nytimes.com] includes two videos (also shown below) that show the traffic to NYTimes.com on June 25, 2009, the day Michael Jackson died. While on video focuses on US-only traffic, the other has a worldwide view. The animated maps also include a subtle visual hint of night time by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}