State (New York) health exchange website gets 10 million hits on first day

[TomCADem]

Source: Buffalo News

“Today, with the launch of New York State’s Health Insurance Exchange, over 9,000 New Yorkers, including business owners and individuals, shopped online for low-cost health insurance for the first time,” the statement said.

By 5 p.m., the website had approximately 10 million Web visits, far more than anticipated, she said.

Call centers handled some of the excess volume, Frescatore noted, and efforts were being made to increase the site’s capacity and find the cause of “this abnormally high traffic.” The call center number is [phone].

The state estimates there are a total of 2.7 million uninsured residents, and less than half of those are expected to actually sign up for insurance through the ACA.

Read more: http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/medical/state-health-exchange-website-gets-10-million-hits-on-first-day-20131001

[JustAnotherGen]

1. That's excellent!

We get NY stations here - and they have run some great ads promoting it!

[onehandle]

2. Ban The Internet, Republicans!

That'll curb this Socialism!

[grantcart]

5. Eliminate the 1 and 0, and all Muslim numbers 0-10

When they try to code in Roman numerals just see how difficult it will be to get through the internet tube-ee thingee.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. K&R

[Grins]

4. Sounds fishy...

This doesn't sound right.

"The state estimates there are a total of 2.7 million uninsured residents, and less than half of those are expected to actually sign up for insurance through the ACA."

If less than half are expected, then the hits should - at best - total 1.35 million. So why the 10-million hits? In a state with a total population of 19.5 million, take out the kids, spouses, citizens who get medicare or employer-provided insurance, why 10-million hits?

Curious.

[Justice]

6. I had one NY friend go on the site just for "giggles" as he put it.

[LiberalElite]

7. It's now 30 million in two days - they're trying to find out why -

http://www.vosizneias.com/142591/2013/10/02/albany-ny-ny-state-health-care-website-slammed-with-30m-hits/

Albany, NY - New York’s website to allow the uninsured to shop for health insurance under the nation’s new health care law has struggled under the surge of nearly 30 million hits in two days.

New York has just 2.7 million uninsured residents, so state officials are trying to figure out why their website has attracted more hits than in any other state.

State Department of Health Executive Director Donna Frescatore said the agency doubled the website’s capacity after users experienced delays and other difficulties entering.

New York is constantly monitoring the website for “robots” which could inundate the system as a protest or as a way to disrupt the health care program. But no evidence has been found. The department said evidence of an attack or protest could be seen immediately.

[IronLionZion]

8. Hits are much different from unique users

Web server hits are any type of request to the server. As in one loading of the homepage is one hit. Refreshing that page is another hit. Going to the next page is third hit. And so on. This number can also increase if the site is running javascripts, and I'm sure NY HX is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit_%28Internet%29

Hell I've hit NY HX just to check it out since I personally know people who worked on building it. I just checked once, but I can imagine a lot of curious folks would check it out, or if they don't get through they might come back and keep trying after a few minutes. So you can imagine the number of hits can get huge quick.

[Earth_First]

10. I'm currently insured, and checked out the NY HX three times...

Once for my own interest, the other two to ascertain some information for two friends of mine.

I don't think anything fradulent or illegal is happening, just widespread interest and gawkers...

[Sunlei]

9. my sincere apologies. about 500 hits are mine as I check different plans

Lookin' good! Thanks Obama