There are a lot of things to complain about in the UK but the digital services bit of the UK government is really well run.<p>Congratulations on riding out the thundering herd.
If Boris had given out at least a basic summary of what the new rules mean I would have stayed off the website.<p>A better speechwriter could have saved a huge amount of bandwidth
If folks think this load broke analytics please think again. Is there no critical thinking left out there in journalism? Do folks understand the scale analytics operates at?<p>Some quick questions<p>Did they actually pay for analytics 360?<p>If not, did they do 10 million hits in a month for a property? if so - they may be over the limit of 10 million / month.<p>More on differences here:
<a href="https://blog.littledata.io/2018/02/28/google-analytics-360-versus-the-free-version/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.littledata.io/2018/02/28/google-analytics-360-v...</a><p>Analytics 360 runs 12K+/month from memory, but someone probably has more recent info.
This might be awkward for some but can governments be compelled to use Foss software and where a Foss software is lacking features, fund for development of that feature so that everyone benefits instead of lacing more and more reliance on proprietary tech which inturn forces citizens to use that proprietary junk because "compatibility"?
“Out of the 17M page requests made between 8–9pm (111M if you include assets: stylesheets, images, etc), we served 21 5xx errors.” [1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://twitter.com/therealnooshu/status/1346419468151488512" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/therealnooshu/status/1346419468151488512</a>
Am I the only one who thinks it's creepy that the largest advertising company in the world, and particularly one based outside the country, has so much data on what UK citizens access on their own government websites for health, tax, social welfare information etc?
Is that much?<p>He said they got around 88k RPS.<p>I did a quick benchmark another day, I'm hosting my blog at the Digital Ocean App Plataform, in the free tier, used Locust with some VMs in Azure to stress test it, managed to hit 20k RPS and the only issue I had was that the my VMs at Azure were hitting memory limits...<p>Doesn't look impressive at all, weird that GA broke.