Web Uncrashed by Michael Jackson Memorial

Despite some predictions that today’s memorial service for Michael Jackson would test the Internet’s streaming video capacity, Internet monitoring specialists report lots of traffic but few serious problems from today’s event at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

“The Internet, as a whole, appeared unaffected by the large amount of online traffic generated by the more than 1 million online viewers of Michael Jackson’s memorial service this afternoon,” said Keynote Systems, a mobile and Web site monitoring firm. Keynote said some news sites offering live coverage had slow page loads during the event.

While there was no widespread performance problems, there was plenty of traffic. here’s a roundup of coverage from around the web:

• King of Pop Proves to be King of Traffic
• Michael Jackson’s Last Performance: Big, But not Obama Big
• The World Was Watching: Michael Jackson’s Memorial, By the Numbers