5-minute Google outage 40% drop in global website traffic
In Q2 2013, Google reported revenues of $14.1 billion. Doing a bit of division, we can estimate that Google makes about $108,000 in revenue for everyone minute it's actually functioning. Five minutes of being offline cost the company about $545,000 in revenue, assuming that Google gets most of its revenue from the services that went down. For Google, it's not a huge amount of money, but that's roughly what the average American household brings in over the course of a decade.
Additionally, the downtime appears to have caused a global drop in website traffic of 40 percent before spiking back up again once Google was back online, according to GoSquared's analysis. This most likely didn't please website owners who rely on Google to get a decent amount of hits.
It's insane just how much we take Google for granted every day, but we sure do miss it when it's gone. Well, most of us.
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iLewisPosted:
There is a grammar issue - "Google makes about $108,000 in revenue for everyone minute it's actually functioning." Should be every minute It's functioning.. But that still sounds a little iffy.
SanchezioPosted:
Haha far out that's a lot of people! And a lot of money that was lost! But thats nothing to Google I guess. :P
slapshot101Posted:
Half a million dollars is nothing to bat an eyelash at even if the company makes millions of dollars an hour. Also with all the google services being out I can see that because think about it Google itself, Youtube, Gmail, Google Ad's, I can totally see that google makes up 40% of internet traffic.
EvoVIIIPosted:
ORL_MAGICWoobie That is insane but that money loss is nothing to them, they make it back 10x faster than they lose it.
They didn't lose anything except for the chance of getting that money.
Exactly. That was well said.
I wish i made that much when i get older!
ORL_MAGICPosted:
Woobie That is insane but that money loss is nothing to them, they make it back 10x faster than they lose it.
They didn't lose anything except for the chance of getting that money.
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