Source: yodanielFair to say that counts as a large volume of concurrent visits.
The One Direction tour on-sale peak period (a fun 3hrs starting at 8:30am on Saturday) was the first time Google Analytics’ ‘real time view’ has seemed like anything other than a gimmick. Helped a lot to manage traffic flow and decide when we should switch to contingencies [static versions of pages with almost zero server overhead].
We weren’t even selling the tickets, just a source of information and a place for discussion (this was also the first time Facebook’s Live Stream plugin has been worthwhile). I imagine Ticketmaster’s graph would be even more impressive. And as for Viagogo’s…