The U.S. government's website for securing free COVID tests, which began accepting orders a day ahead of schedule, is attracting a lot of visitors. In fact, more than all other government pages combined, according to the government's analytics website.
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Web traffic numbers change by the second, but as of 1:32 p.m. ET, when a check was made for real-time numbers for all government pages, the free COVID testing website, COVIDTests.gov, along with its FAQ page and other language versions of the site, had 685,817 visitors. The number of visitors for the 3,853 other pages included in the report totaled 419,615. The site’s traffic doesn’t appear to have declined since then.
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There have been concerns that the site would not be able to handle the influx of visitors since it was announced. So far, however, it seems to be coping well with the speed of visits, although it is always possible that we will see an even bigger surge of visitors to the site on the date the general public is informed that it will go live.
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That doesn't mean things have been entirely smooth sailing. Several people have reported that having the tests live in an apartment building can cause problems, with some residents receiving an error message that they had already ordered the tests for their address. As the Associated Press, it's hard to say how widespread the issue is, and there have been conflicting reports on how to resolve it.
