"I have studied traffic samples and analytic data almost every day for over 5 years and I have never witnessed what has been happening this weekend. For no real reason that I can explain, internet traffic is way down. I have a number of websites and traffic data for millions of pageviews on any given weekend and across the board I am seeing the same drop. On Tumblr I have even noticed a drop in an average posts note count.
Also: No. It isn’t because the web was shut down in Egypt but I can’t help but think that the news coverage of Egypt is having some effect.
Note: Web traffic is always down on the weekends but this is much larger than normal."