Sentences with phrase «caused spikes in traffic»

There are some odd surprises, not least of all for the number one spot, but the majority of our most popular items concerned rioting and phone - hacking, two events which caused spikes in traffic to news sites.

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Still, from the minute it learned WeatherTech was doing a Super Bowl ad, Americaneagle.com went into research and testing mode, not only estimating just how much extra traffic WeatherTech would get on February 2 and the days afterward but also testing the site to see where bottlenecks existed that might cause problems in the event of a huge traffic spike.

Discounts, then, might cause a spike in Chipotle's near - term foot traffic, but how many customers are the die - hard fans from before the outbreaks?

In Kohl's case, their website outage was caused by a traffic spike — too many visitors all at once.

A sudden explosion occurs when one of your random long - tail keywords is suddenly matched on a major search, or a news event causes that keyword to get a spike in traffic.

The server stats don't show any referring sites sending THAT many readers, and I'm also not seeing the kind of spike in traffic from web - based email programs (Yahoo Mail, etc.) that an email newsletter pickup usually causes.

He elaborated by recalling the company's early days of «guerrilla marketing,» which relied heavily on gaming blogs — but the big break came with a mention by Penny Arcade, which caused a massive spike in the company's traffic: «It was really nothing, nothing, nothing, then bam!

Yokohama is the second - largest city in Japan with a population of 3.7 million and like many other cities in the world, rapid urbanisation has increased energy use, caused traffic jams, and led to spikes in air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Bitstamp also struggled to cope with the demand for Bitcoin — and apologized to users on Twitter as they worked to resolve the issue caused by the spike in traffic.