{"id":498,"date":"2022-03-02T15:21:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/02\/the-uss-free-covid-test-website-has-more-visitors-than-all-other-gov-sites-combined\/"},"modified":"2022-03-02T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:21:12","slug":"the-uss-free-covid-test-website-has-more-visitors-than-all-other-gov-sites-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/03\/02\/the-uss-free-covid-test-website-has-more-visitors-than-all-other-gov-sites-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"The US\u2019s free COVID test website has more visitors than all other .gov sites combined"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/1\/18\/22889769\/us-government-free-covid-test-website-massive-page-viewcount<\/a>
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The US government\u2019s site to claim free COVID tests, which has started accepting orders a day before it was scheduled to<\/a>, is drawing in a lot <\/em>of visitors \u2014 more than every other government page combined, according to the government\u2019s own analytics site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Web traffic numbers change by the second, but at 1:32PM ET, when I ran the report to download real-time numbers for all governmental pages, COVIDTests.gov<\/a> (along with its FAQ page and versions of the site in other languages) had 685,817 visitors. The visitor counts for the 3,853 other pages included in the report totaled 419,615. Traffic doesn\u2019t seem to have dropped since then. <\/p>\n

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\nAt times, the <\/em>COVIDtests.gov<\/em><\/a> page had over 705,000 visitors.<\/em>
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There have been concerns that the site wouldn\u2019t be able to handle the load since it was announced. So far, though, it seems to be handling the rush \u2014 though it\u2019s always possible we could see an even bigger wave of visitors on the site tomorrow, the date the general public was told it would go live<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say that things have been perfectly smooth. Several people have reported<\/a> that living in an apartment building can cause issues, with some residents receiving an error message that tests had already been ordered for their address. As the Associated Press<\/em> reports<\/a>, it\u2019s hard to tell how widespread the issue is, and there have been conflicting reports on how to solve it. <\/p>\n