Category: News;
bbc.co.uk
Date: 11.07.2005
Printable version
Audiences turned to the 91Èȱ¬ in record numbers for news
and analysis of the London Bomb Attacks that took place on
7 July last week.
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The 91Èȱ¬ News website recorded the highest volume of
traffic in the site's history on the day of the attacks, with an estimated
figure of 115.7 million page impressions.
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And last night's Panorama Special: London Under Attack
is the highest rating Sunday night Panorama for over a year with an
estimated 3.7m viewers.
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The 91Èȱ¬ News website figure is more than double the
previous highest figure of 50.6m page impressions, recorded on the day
of the UK election results in May this year.
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And on the day following the attacks, the site - at
bbc.co.uk/news - recorded 53.7m page impressions, now the second highest
figure in the site's history.
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The most requested story was 'London rocked by terror
attacks' - accessed 15.3 million times during the day. The previous
record was 2.3 million - for the result of the US Presidential Election.
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At peak, the 91Èȱ¬ News site was receiving 40,000 page
requests per second.
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In the special Panorama programme, Peter Taylor explored
the terrorist threat following a year-long investigation and reveals
why it is so difficult to track the people who now conduct attacks like
those in London last week.
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Peter Taylor's latest series, The New Al-Qaeda, will
be shown on 91Èȱ¬ TWO starting on Monday 25 July at 9.00pm.
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Notes to Editors
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Stories with the previous highest page impressions on
bbc.co.uk/news were:
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The day of the UK general election result on 6 May
2005 - 50.6m page impressions; the day of the US presidential election
result on 3 November 2004 - 38.7m page impressions; and the day of the
UK general election on 5 May 2005 - 33.7m page impressions.
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Sunday's Panorama on the London bomb attacks was also
the second highest rating edition since 2001. The highest rating edition
was Couldn't Give a XXXX for Last Orders with 3.8m viewers, which was
broadcast on 6 June 2004.
