NEW YORK (AP) -- The Web site of The New York Times suffered substantial delays Monday as traffic spiked following its reports linking Gov. Eliot Spitzer to a prostitution ring.
Normally, the Times site takes about three seconds to load. Just minutes after the Times posted its first article on Spitzer at about 1:57 p.m., average load times increased to more than 20 seconds, according to Keynote Systems Inc., a company that measures Web site performance. Keynote checked the Times site using automated probes in 10 U.S. cities.
Performance returned to normal by 4 p.m., Keynote said.
Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty said the site saw 60 percent more traffic between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. than it did a week earlier, forcing its information technology staff to juggle Web servers to keep up.
After the Times posted its report that Spitzer has told senior advisers he had been involved in a prostitution ring, Spitzer held a news conference during which he apologized to his family and the people of New York.
The governor gave no details about what he was apologizing for and has not been charged.
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