Ratings figures suggest that during major incidents such as the 7 July 2005 London bombings or royal events , the UK audience overwhelmingly turns to the BBC 's coverage as opposed to its commercial rivals . On 7 July 2005 , the day that there were a series of coordinated bomb blasts on London 's public transport system , the BBC Online website recorded an all time bandwidth peak of 11 Gb/s at 12.00 on 7 July . BBC News received some 1 billion total hits on the day of the event ( including all images , text and HTML ) , serving some 5.5 terabytes of data . At peak times during the day there were 40,000 page requests per second for the BBC News website . The previous day 's announcement of the 2012 Olympics being awarded to London caused a peak of around 5 Gbit/s . The previous all-time high at BBC Online was caused by the announcement of the Michael Jackson verdict , which used 7.2 Gbit/s
7 July 2005 London bombings
7 July 2005 London bombings
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