The entire world was spellbound, as it watched the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
The wedding which is touted as the biggest of the year had set an internet traffic record, making it the sixth biggest event in the internet history.
According to Keynote Systems, an internet monitoring company revealed that most news websites had pretty good traffic, as millions of people watched the live stream on the internet.
Incidentally, it’s reported that global internet traffic at some of the websites had hit a maximum of nearly 5.3million page views per minute, at 1.30pm yesterday.
Meanwhile, the statistics data for television coverage revealed that BBC and ITV1 attracted 24 million viewers to television.
Social networking sites performed well
Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter had also attracted huge traffic, as several people updated and commented about the royal wedding.
The topic that generated a lot of attention on Facebook and Twitter revolved around Westminster Abbey, Prince William, Kate Middleton and David Beckham.
From Kate’s dress, wedding ceremony to the newly wed’s procession to Buckingham Palace, had gathered a huge number of comments and hits among UK users of Facebook.
Data in Facebook revealed that more than 6.8 million commented on the wedding and on the micro blogging site Twitter, the wedding was mentioned 67 times a second.
Meanwhile, it’s also revealed that YouTube didn’t have much traffic and was available 100 percent, while the royal wedding site was available 74 percent of the time respectively.
William and Kate’s wedding outshined President Obama’s election
However, the new Duke and Duchess had failed to be the strong contender on the biggest news event of all times.
According to Akamai, an internet hosting provider that supposedly manages 20 percent of world’s internet traffic revealed that Prince William and Kate’s wedding didn’t manage to beat last year’s World Cup Soccer match, since the streaming for the wedding was less than the World Cup.
However, the royal couple managed to outshine President Obama’s 2008 election, as the number of views was 4.3 per minute back then.
