RedCross.org traffic up 184% within 1 day

Nielsen//NetRatings reported traffic to RedCross.org skyrocketed 184% overnight, attracting more than 1.1 mln people on Wednesday, August 31 as compared to 390,000 unique visitors on Tuesday, August 30. In comparison, RedCross.org saw 1.1 mln unique visitors during the entire month of December 2004 in response to the South-East Asian tsunami disaster, which grew to more than 2 mln in January 2005.