Wikipedia Jan 18 win
By Sandhya

On Jan 18, 2012, Wikipedia had shut down for 24 hours to protest against proposed American laws – SOPA and PIPA - which are good for big business but would stem the freedoms, democratic speech and creativity of the internet.

Wikipedia gets about 475 million visitors a month.  What happened on Jan 18 when the entire English Wikipedia shutdown for 24 hours?  In some places, it got more traffic than other days.  Some of it driven by the blanker TV and print coverage of the Wikipedia strike on Jan 18.

Cloud Security company Zcaler analyzed the traffic

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SOPA Protest: Wikipedia Traffic Trend
 
If you want a quick way of increasing traffic to your website - change or take down portions of your website in protest ... at least that is what we have gleaned from Wikipedia protest against SOPA. There will likely be other blog posts and stats released on the results of this and other cyber protests - here is what we have seen from traffic thus far that has passed through one of Zscaler's clouds.

We saw a noticeable percentage increase in the unique visits (by client IP address) to Wikipedia comparing the protesting framework to surrounding dates
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