{"id":5197,"date":"2014-10-13T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T12:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2019-11-28T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:01:24","slug":"google-dns-outage-4-7-drop-global-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gosquared.com\/blog\/google-dns-outage-4-7-drop-global-traffic","title":{"rendered":"Google DNS Outage: 4.7% drop in global traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s DNS service (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) went down very briefly today at 11:29am GMT. This took down Google.com at the same time &#8211; preventing website domains from being resolved and users from searching for information. Because of this, there was a noticeable drop in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared&#8217;s real-time tracking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.gosquared.com\/images\/liquidicity\/14_10_13_google_dns_graph_02.png\" alt=\"Google DNS Outage\"><\/p>\n<p>It looks as if the outage was limited to a specific region and was resolved very quickly. We noticed a 4.7% drop in traffic (pageviews being tracked) at 11.29. Over two years ago, Google DNS was serving <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/02\/google-public-dns-70-billion-requests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 70 billion requests per day<\/a>, so just one minute of downtime would mean 49 million failed requests.<\/p>\n<p>Although 4.7% is significant, it&#8217;s nothing compared to the huge <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.gosquared.com\/googles-downtime-40-drop-in-traffic\">40% drop we reported<\/a> in August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Google DNS launched in December 2009 to improve the speed and security of DNS. You can read more about the project <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/speed\/public-dns\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s DNS service (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4) went down very briefly today at 11:29am GMT. 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