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Old February 26th 18, 11:35 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
Metman2012[_3_] Metman2012[_3_] is offline
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Default UK met office rainfall radar page

On 26/02/2018 11:56, wrote:
I can’t get it to work on my iPhone. The page loads but the interesting options (radar, sat etc) are all grayed out. Is it just me ?

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/...ime=1519599600

I used to work in the web team at the Met Office. We were told to
increase the number of page views the site got. I said simple, just
forecast snow (or other extreme weather) in London and the south-east
and you will get plenty of extra traffic. With today's snow forecast in
London and the south-east - my 'solution' has been proved true (not for
the first time).

When I retired (can you guess when), they used Akamai so that as traffic
increased so Akamai would put extra servers on. That doesn't seem to be
working any more (for reasons I don't know).
Oh and they ended up not giving us that as a target, phew.