Comments on: Sunday evening – the new web rush hour

By: Narf

Narf — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:54:46 +0000

One other possibility for the stats – site & system maintenance? My ISP/cable/phone provider has a habit of bringing down huge sections of a major metropolitan area on Sunday-Monday usually starting shortly after midnight. These are unforewarned outages, usually denied by customer service & tech support folks who have seemingly little knowledge of the events.

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:37:42 +0000

My small site would seem to parallel the article but On surprising thing I have noted is a one hour drop at midnight. I see a 50% or more reduction for the single hour between 12 and 1am then it picks up again to 90% of the pre-midnight volume then tampers off until 7am.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:43:55 +0000

As a gamer this is old news to me. Gaming servers are notoriously slower on Sundays due to net congestion and this has been the case for quite a while now. Has it really taken this long to confirm it? I’m in the wrong job.

With the recession worries I would expect usage to get even heavier as people opt for the cheaper online entertainment.

By: Falaque

Falaque — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:41:31 +0000

hmmm,
Nice research.

By: mike@problogservice.com

mike@problogservice.com — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:24:15 +0000

Bloggers should take note of this and make sure that new posts are timed to go online Sunday. I’ve used that strategy for quite some time.

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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:00:24 +0000

[...] admin Research firm Ofcom finds that the worst time for traffic congestion (in the U.K., at least) is 5-6pm on Sundays. Also weak bandwidth times: Right after school lets out, and from 9-10pm on weekdays. Maybe obvious [...]

By: Marshall Eubanks

Marshall Eubanks — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:25:20 +0000

I could believe this.

The AmericaFree.TV traffic almost always peaks for the week Sunday evening. But, that is because we are a video service and most people watch from home (6:00 PM to 10:00 PM, local time, is the general peak audience for any time zone). By contrast, the minimum usage for the week is 6:00 AM Monday morning, for each time zone. And, during holiday periods), the day of the Holiday also tends to be an audience peak. The recent Christmas / New Years periods saw unusual peaks on Christmas, the day after and New Years and the day after – people were presumably taking 4 day week-ends.

I would assume that that is true for most video services, so, if video dominates bandwidth usage, then it would be reasonable to assume that Internet bandwidth usage does peak on Sunday.

By: William Bryson

William Bryson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:18:40 +0000

I wonder how this will impact online advertisers.

Will they soon all be outbidding each other for an adspot on sundays between 5 – 6:00 PM?