As expected, last week saw 4 days of high demand on our website and open data during the Tube strike and in the build up to it, with traffic at 1.67 x normal levels over Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th August.
The strike started on the evening of Wednesday 5th which was the busiest day, with 1,315,328 visits, though this was considerably lower than the busiest day of last month’s Tube strike, when we hit a record 2,058,618 visits.
With 1.3 Million visits, Wednesday 5th August was the 6th busiest day this calendar year, preceded by January and July strike days.
The morning of Friday 7th continued to see an increase in demand, but with numbers starting to drop back to normal levels as the day went on.
Our web and data services performed well throughout the period of high demand, with no reports of issues accessing our services.
