The BBC's news Web site had its highest traffic ever last Friday, the day following voting in the UK's most closely fought general election in decades. According to BBC editor Steve Herrman, writing on the BBC's editors' blog, the BBC news Web site had 11.4 million individual users on Friday. The previous record of 9.2 million was on 5 November 2008, the day after Obama's election victory.

There were about 100 million page views in total, with about 6.5 million going to the election live page and 30 million to the constituency results pages. The "search for your result by postcode" and "search by name" peaked at around 36,000 searches per minute. Clearly, many users were engaging with the site. Even the mobile election results pages had more than 1 million page views.

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