Highest Peaks based on total page views per minute

The highest peaks since inception of the Net Usage Index for News (August 18, 2005), based on total page views per minute. The following data ranks the top peaks, and the corresponding events that were taking place in the world at the time.

	Rank		Date		Approximate Time (ET)		Peak Page Views per Minute		Compelling News Event*
	1		Jun. 24,  2010		12:00 PM		10,357,646		Simultaneous World Cup qualifying  matches and longest ever  Wimbledon  match
	2		Dec. 07,  2011		5:00 PM		6,583,294		Coverage of UEFA Champions  League (Group Stage), day two
	3		Nov. 03,  2010		6:00 PM		6,363,725		Champions League/European  Cup Games
	4		Jun. 11,  2010		12:00 PM		6,039,434		Day 1 of 2010 World Cup  Championships
	5		Nov. 2,  2010		5:30 PM		5,660,658		2010 US Mid-Term Elections
	6		Jun. 23,  2010		12:00 PM		5,647,432		USA beat Algeria to qualify  for top 16 in the world cup
	7		Apr. 29,  2011		9:30 AM		5,398,731		Live coverage of the Royal  Wedding of Prince William and  Kate Middleton
	8		Dec. 06,  2011		4:45 PM		5,008,897		Coverage of UEFA Champions  League (Group Stage), day one
	9		Feb. 2,  2011		5:00 PM		4,953,655		Violence breaks out in Egypt  between anti- and pro-  government supporters.
	10		Mar. 17,  2011		4:00 PM		4,925,274		Day one of U.S. NCAA collegiate  basketball tournament
	11		Feb. 6,  2011		10:00 PM		4,630,080		Green Bay Packers are victorious  in National Football League (U.S.)  Super Bowl XLV
	12		Feb. 22,  2011		5:00 PM		4,612,644		Earthquake in Christchurch,  New Zealand
	13		Feb. 1,  2011		4:45 PM		4,592,229		Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak  declares he won't seek  re-election amidst protests
	14		Mar. 11,  2011		4:00 PM		4,576,088		Ongoing coverage of Japan  earthquake and tsunami
	15		May 15,  2011		3:30 PM		4,434,962		IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-  Kahn arrested in New York for  sexual assault

* The Net Usage Index for News does not claim that a single news event accounts for all Web news traffic at any given time, but the Index can be used to correlate worldwide interest in specific news events with relative audience size.