Analytics graph ruined by Dart announcement

The Dart Keynote announcement has made Gotocon’s Google Analytics dashboard unusable. Read the gory details…

Analytics graph ruined by Dart announcement
The now totally defunct analytics graph

The people over at http://gotocon.com/ like to keep an eye out for the Google Analytics graphs they’re harvesting when people visit the site.
However, on september 16th, when Helene logged into the dashboard, all meaningful information relating to all other dates than september 15th had been dwarfed by the surge in interest resulting from the announcement that on october 10th – that is tomorrow morning – the GOTO conference in Aarhus will host the announcement of the Dart programming language.

The lesson to take away from this: it seems the caches built into the system behind gotocon.com seems to work well enough to withstand a 10-fold increase in site traffic.

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