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Wikipedia shows traffic uptick during SOPA protest

Although  Wikipedia completely blacked out  its English language Web site yesterday in protest of potential U.S.  antipiracy legislation , traffic on the Web encyclopedia was higher than usual, according to research and analysis company Zscaler. (Credit: Zscaler) "If you want a quick way of increasing traffic to your website--change or take down portions of your website in protest," Zscaler wrote on its blog yesterday. "At least that is what we have gleaned from today's (1/18) Wikipedia protest against SOPA." Graphs on the Zscaler blog show that unique Wikipedia visits during the blackout were higher than surrounding days. However, Zscaler notes that these visitors were bouncing off the site fairly quickly and the majority of visits were to Wikipedia's main page and  SOPA Initiative page . Zscaler's stats break down to about a 365 percent increase in visits to Wikipedia's SOPA Initiative page and around a 77 percent increase across SOP...