{"id":305,"date":"2020-04-13T08:45:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T08:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2020-04-15T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T07:08:29","slug":"lockdown-website-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown website responses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect this post will grow over the next few weeks&#8230; but I&#8217;m seeing some very strange behaviours on websites during lockdown&#8230; are there REALLY such massive server concerns for sites like B&amp;Q (case in point) and supermarkets that they suddenly have a need for an hour long wait time to use the website?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested to see traffic mapping pre\/post CV19 to see just HOW big the increase of site traffic is. These queues seems o run through the night, which suggests it&#8217;s throttling on traffic rather than server overload, I just don&#8217;t see why? Is it related to delivery?<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Update: I received another interesting message from B&amp;Q (screen shot below). This suggests site traffic volume is the issue. I have to say I find it hard to believe that traffic is THAT increased over normal peaks like Bank Holidays. The message goes on to say &#8216;only essential repairs&#8230;&#8217; etc, which suggests it&#8217;s a supply\/delivery issue. In which case, why not handle that at fulfilment (checkout, delivery)? It&#8217;d also help with order\/supply cadence, to know who&#8217;s after what and how much over say, the next few weeks, surely?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ2.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And another: I was just explaining it to someone and saw this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"553\" height=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ3.png 553w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ3-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/www.benedictireland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/BQ3-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suspect this post will grow over the next few weeks&#8230; but I&#8217;m seeing some very strange behaviours on websites during lockdown&#8230; are there REALLY such massive server concerns for sites like B&amp;Q (case in point) and supermarkets that they suddenly have a need for an hour long wait time to use the website? 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