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CommentsCreated 3/2/1998 |
J. Bradford DeLong
delong@econ.berkeley.edu
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net
Someday I am going to use this log to write a sequel to my piece on Slate's slow downloading times...
My piece about the unbearable heaviness of Slate...It appeared in REWIRED...
Approx. 10:00 PM PST March 2, 1998; surfing from home; connected via 28.8K dialup to Berkeley; using Navigator 4; surfexpress installed: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 75 seconds Slate Chatterbox: 34 seconds Back to contents: 18 seconds Slate Stevenson: 14 seconds Back to contents: 27 seconds McKelvey: 10 seconds McKelvey page 2: 7 seconds average: 26.4 Salon contents: 8 seconds Salon 21st: 32 seconds 21st page 2: 12 seconds Back to contents: 6 seconds Crouch: 7 seconds Back to contents: 8 seconds Starr: 7 seconds average: 11.4 Approx. 11:30 AM PST March 3, 1998; surfing from office; connected via ethernet to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 60 seconds Pundit central: 29 seconds Back to contents: 25 seconds Brent Staples review: 25 seconds Back to contents: 19 seconds Chatterbox: 42 seconds Back to contents: 40 seconds Gates diary: 25 seconds average: 33.1 (Why does Bill Gates think that it takes "... five seconds to download a new browser."?) Salon contents: 17 seconds "Eyeballing": 16 seconds Levine: 7 seconds Back to contents: 6 seconds Forward to "silence..." 27 seconds Back to contents: 6 seconds Angkor Wat: 11 seconds Back to contents: 8 seconds Forward to newsreal: 21 seconds Toothless hounds: 10 seconds Back to contents: 7 seconds Glitch in time: 20 seconds Net generation: 5 seconds average: 12.4 Approx. 4:15 PM PST March 3, 1998; surfing from office connected via ethernet to Berkeley; Navigator 4: keeping contents page open at all times--that is, clicking on links via the "open in new window" command... Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 33 seconds International papers: 27 seconds Week/Spin: 25 seconds Other magazines: 13 seconds Michael Lewis: 20 seconds average: 23.6 Switching to Hotwired... Hotwired contents: 60 seconds Jon Katz: 13 seconds Jeff Veen: 16 seconds Veen page 2: 12 seconds Veen page 3: 12 seconds average: 9.4 Jump out of Hotwired to Eric S. Raymond's site: jump to Cathedral... 4 seconds Cathedral part 1: 3 seconds Cathedral part 2: 4 seconds Cathedral part 3: 2 seconds part 4: 3 seconds part 5: 2 seconds part 6: 2 seconds part 7: 1 second part 8: 2 seconds part 9: 2 seconds part 10: 3 seconds Eric's Writings: 5 seconds WarGames II: 2 seconds average: 2.7 Back to Hotwired... html editor shootout: 10 seconds page 2: 11 seconds page 3: 11 seconds page 4: 7 seconds page 5: 12 seconds page 6: 12 seconds page 7: 9 seconds page 8: 7 seconds page 9 9 seconds average: 9.7 Approx. 10:00 PM PST March 3, 1998; surfing from home; connected via 28.8K dialup to Berkeley; using Navigator 3: keeping contents page open at all times--that is, clicking on links via the "open in new window" command... Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 85 seconds Keeping Tabs 25 seconds Chatterbox 43 seconds Gates diary 2 63 seconds average: 54.0 Salon contents 10 seconds 21st: 30 seconds 21st page 2: 7 seconds Babel off: 8 seconds Babel off 2: 14 seconds Et tu Hillary 15 seconds average: 14.0 Approx. 11:00 AM PST March 4, 1998; surfing from office; connected via ethernet to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: keeping contents page open at all times--that is, clicking on links via the "open in new window" command... Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Salon contents: 17 seconds Tom Tomorrow: 28 seconds Articles by subject: 13 seconds 21st features 9 seconds Caught in the headlights 27 seconds 1997 21st features: 31 seconds Giant sucking sound 11 seconds Reality check: 8 seconds Reality check page 2: 6 seconds average: 16.9 -------------------------------------------------- Slate contents: 67 seconds Nato expansion: 66 seconds Nato expansion 2: 31 seconds Nato expansion 3: 18 seconds Back to Slate contents: 45 seconds Prudence: 14 seconds average: 40.2 FIVE HOURS LATER (Approx. 4:30 PM PST): Reload contents: 101 seconds Gates diary: 35 seconds Pundits: 40 seconds Pundit links: 8 seconds Slate Search: 203 seconds List of departments: 31 seconds Find dept dismal science: The collator timed out trying to acquire a connection to DSS... (47 seconds) Find dept dismal science: Data missing... (38 seconds) find dept dismal science: 65 seconds (carried me back to search page) List of departments: 14 seconds Find dept dismal science: 46 seconds list page 2: 64 seconds CPI and rat race: 49 seconds Accidental theorist: 45 seconds dismal science list page 3: The collator timed out trying to acquire a connection to a DSS (23 seconds) dismal science list page 2: The collator timed out trying to acquire a connection to a DSS (28 seconds) dismal science list page 1: The collator timed out trying to acquire a connection to a DSS (34 seconds) search page: 29 pages dismal science list page 1: The collator timed out trying to acquire a connection to a DSS (42 seconds) dismal science list page 1: Data missing... (37 seconds) average (adding a 60 second penalty for pages never loaded): 92.6 -------------------------------------------------- Cloakroom: 12 seconds Buzz: 14 seconds Newslinks: 33 seconds Huffington: 22 seconds Greg Pierce 30 seconds credibility gap: 5 seconds Hotline Earlybird: 17 seconds Post-Indonesia: 26 seconds Buzz-Texas: 15 seconds average: 19.3 APPROXIMATELY 7 PM PST March 4, 1998; surfing from home; connected via 28.8K dialup to Berkeley; using Navigator 4; surfexpress installed keeping contents page open at all times--that is, clicking on links via the "open in new window" command... Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 186 seconds Gates diary-Wednesday: 218 seconds Dialogue-Asia-Bergsten: 86 seconds Dialogue-Asia-Sachs: 62 seconds Other magazines: 48 seconds Week/Spin 64 seconds average: 110.7 -------------------------------------------------- Salon contents 37 seconds 21st column: 34 seconds 21st page 2: 53 seconds Wanderlust: 31 seconds Newsreal: 72 seconds Media: 38 seconds average: 44.2 APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM MARCH 5; SURFING FROM OFFICE CONNECTED VIA ETHERNET TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 73 seconds (skipping "title" page entirely--but demanding access to http://www.slate.com/contents.asp directly produces some oddities: for example, the "by date"/"by page" switch is absent) Today's papers: 46 seconds Back to contents: 31 seconds Four courses of spam: 26 seconds Back to contents: 20 seconds Motley fool: 41 seconds average: 39.5 ---------------------------------- Salon contents: 15 seconds Archives: 11 seconds 21st reviews: 8 seconds 21st reviews (1997): 9 seconds Empire clicks back: 24 seconds Empire2: 10 seconds Survival of the chicest 6 seconds Survival page 2 9 seconds average: 11.5 ----------------------------------- Brad DeLong's home page: 7 seconds Brad DeLong's links page: 3 seconds average: 5 ----------------------------------- Allpolitics/news 20 seconds Lewinsky-immunity 38 seconds Starr-ethics 20 seconds Clinton-deposition 19 seconds average: 24.2 ----------------------------------- Netly news: 60 seconds Netly2: 73 seconds Time Online: 37 seconds Time 100: 75 seconds (killed it after) Time Daily: 71 seconds Gates: 35 seconds average: 69.7 ----------------------------------- Rewired: 32 seconds Rewired message board: 5 seconds average: 18.5 ----------------------------------- Wired news: 84 seconds Lunar ice: 20 seconds USENET: 19 seconds General Magic: 21 seconds Slate: 15 seconds Slate's ready to charge: 17 seconds hotwired: 92 seconds Jon Katz: 35 seconds Jon Katz text: 11 seconds Brooke Shelby Biggs: 67 seconds Biggs text: 10 seconds Jeff Veen: 25 seconds lessons from Apache: 24 seconds Standards: 12 seconds Suck 45 seconds average: 35.6 ------------------------------------ NYT-International News 7 seconds IMF Fund Accord 12 seconds Indonesia 21 seconds NYT-National news 11 seconds Sheppard: 13 seconds NYT-political news 6 seconds Discredit Starr: 7 seconds Smoking foes: 7 seconds NYT Oped: 7 seconds AP breaking news: 12 seconds Dow drops: 7 seconds average: 10.2 APPROXIMATELY 8:00 PM PST MARCH 5; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4; SURFEXPRESS INSTALLED: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Salon contents 123 seconds Strange bedfellows: 95 seconds International papers: 23 seconds Today's papers: 89 seconds Poem: 18 seconds Search; 43 seconds Poem List 28 seconds Poem list 2: 36 seconds Eros Tyrannos: 27 seconds average: 53.6 ------------------------------------- Salon contents 6 seconds Ivy League eggs: 52 seconds Eggs page 2: 35 seconds Eggs page 3: 23 seconds average: 29 ----------------------------------- APPROXIMATELY 6:00 PM PST MARCH 6; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4; SURFEXPRESS INSTALLED: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 101 Readme: 47 Chatterbox: 65 Other magazines 24 Week/spin 51 average: 65.6 ----------------------------------- Salon contents 3 Clousplitter 17 Cloudsplitter 2 13 High school 36 High school 2 24 21st 43 Get this straight 6 Get this straight 2 4 Newsreal 16 Wanderlust 12 LitS 19 Madonna 13 Unzipped title 8 Unzipped text 12 average: 16.1 APPROXIMATELY 9:30 PM PST MARCH 10; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP LINE TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4; SURFEXPRESS INSTALLED; KEEPING CONTENTS WINDOW OPEN AT ALL TIMES; HEAVY LOAD ON MACHINE--WRITING WEB PAGES IN THE FOREGROUND WHILE NAVIGATOR DOWNLOADS IN THE BACKGROUND: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Salon contents 10 seconds Salon "Franklin Planner" 67 seconds FP2 36 FP3 40 PalmPilot 20 PP2 13 WAnderlust 70 WL2 20 Letters 37 Vernon Jordan 39 VJ2 63 average: 37.7 ----------------------------------- Slate contents 294 seconds Summary judgment 68 Chatterbox 77 Caviar 85 Daily Papers 173... stopped with no text loaded Daily Papers 265... download stopped with no text loaded average: 204.6 --------------------------------- http://www.alertbox.com/ 24 seconds Changes in usability since 94: 29 Download times 17 Page Sizes Small 21 average: 27.8 APPROXIMATELY 4:30 PM PST MARCH 14; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4; SURFEXPRESS INSTALLED: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 174 Readme 32 Flame Posies 40 Weisberg 16 Bailout 68 Brock 32 Chatterbox 37 Int. Papers 41 Other magazines 13 Week/Spin 26 average: 48.0 --------------------------------- Salon contents 15 21st 34 Newsreal 9 average: 19.3 APPROXIMATELY 2:30 PM PST MARCH 16; SURFING FROM FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO (T-3???): Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate porch 25 Contents 38 Pundit Central 12 Back to contents 22 Esterhas 12 Conundrum 16 Back to contents 22 International papers 12 Back to contents 15 Movies 14 Back to contents 15 Prudence 17 Back to contents 15 Today's papers 23 Back to contents 15 Poem 11 Search 17 List of departments 6 Dismal science 11 East in the red 18 seconds Compost 7 Author list 14 Eliot Abrams 4 Dialogue 18 Contents 21 Readme 17 Cookies 10 Back to readme 12 Back to contents 15 News quiz 14 Fray 11 Slate tech issues 13 Back 10 messages 9 Back 10 messages 14 Back 10 messages 9 Back 10 messages 7 Next 10 messages 7 Next 10 messages 9 Next 10 messages 10 Next 10 messages 10 average: 14.7 ------------------------------------------ Salon contents 5 seconds Newsreal 18 Newsreal2 3 letters 3 Back to contents 2 21st 11 Back to contents 3 Media 5 Back to contents 2 Paula Jones 10 Back to contents 2 CNet 10 CNet2 21 average: 7.4 APPROXIMATELY 10:30 AM PST MARCH 17; SURFING FROM BERKELEY BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS LIBRARY: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate front porch 24 Slate contents 37 Herbert Stein 21 average: 27.3 APPROXIMATELY 10:00 PM PST MARCH 17; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED WITH 28.8K DIALUP LINE TO BERKELEY: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 65 Chatterbox 95 Lewis 36 average: 65.3 ----------------------------- Salon contents 22 News 27 21st 43 Bookcase 23 average: 28.8 APPROXIMATELY 7:00 PM PST MARCH 18; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED WITH 28.8K DIALUP LINE TO BERKELEY: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 116 seconds Stein on budget 128 Mind over Monica 41 Other magazines 44 Week/Spin 80 average: 81.8 ---------------------------------------------------- Salon contents 12 seconds Salon on Slate 34 Salon on Slate2 16 Hillary was right 55 Hillary was right2 20 Ehrenreich 68 Ehrenreich2 16 Roiphe 10 average: 28.9 APPROXIMATELY 8:30 PM PST MARCH 19; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED WITH 28.8K DIALUP LINE TO BERKELEY: USING *INTERNET*EXPLORER*4* Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate front porch 146 seconds Login failed page 75 Sign in page 63 Contents page 229, at the end of which contents still had not loaded; pulled the plug... average: 286.5 ----------------------------------------------------- Salon contents 39 seconds Rwanda 46 Rwanda page 2 18 Media 44 Movies 61 Movies page 2 32 TV 44 average: 40.6 Dropping back to Netscape Navigator 4.03: Slate contents 114 seconds Asian bailout 61 Weisberg 50 International Papers 94 Other Magazines 33 average: 70.4 -------------------------------------------------- Salon contents 34 seconds Rwanda 25 Rwanda page 2 14 Media 30 Movies 42 Movies page 2 18 TV 30 average: 27.6 (so no more Internet Explorer for a long time--and I learned the distressing fact that Explorer does not load some of the animated .gifs on my own site properly...) APPROXIMATELY 10:00 AM MARCH 24; SURFING FROM OFFICE CONNECTED VIA ETHERNET TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 60 seconds Today's papers 90 Spin 15 International papers 14 Other magazines 17 Gist 21 chatterbox 21 Summary Judgement 11 Pundit Central 18 Recycled 33 News Quiz 12 Readme 43 Jerry Springer 18 Sex Addiction 33 Weisberg 16 Internet Stock bubble 8 Budget 34 Dr. Spock 19 Gawande 13 (my god... I can't believe that someone would actually write about how more accidents don't happen when Friday the 13th is the day of a full moon... Atul needs more things to write about...) Monica goes film noir 12 Mind over Monica 10 Kleiner ex Machina 12 Reply-all 35 Gertrude Stein 25 Primary colors 17 Leguizamo 7 Tea with the local saint 8 Prudence 16 Francis Bacon 28 Oscars 19 Stein from Israel 21 Stein page 2 14 Stein page 3 12 Asia Bailout 32 Cats and dogs 17 Coupland diary 35 Compost-search 22 Boilerslate 11 Fray 13 E-mail 32 Back to table of contents 52 average: 23.0 -------------------------------------------- Salon contents 2 connection refused Salon contents 2 connection refused Salon contents 2 connection refused Salon contents 2 connection refused Salon contents 14 seconds E-mail 21 E-mail2 4 21st challenge 6 Troopergate 26 Bag man 12 Bag man2 14 Killing Fields 11 Rwanda2 9 Slick Willey 8 Quote of the day 4 Spring Break 17 Spring break2 8 Heat of the Night 11 Heat of the Night2 4 Peggy Noonan 14 Larry Kramer 8 average: 10.4 APPROXIMATELY 7:00 PM PST MARCH 24; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 92 seconds Gingrich 38 Today's Papers 74 Spin 38 average: 60.5 ----------------------------------- Salon contents 34 Clinton cocaine smear 32 Daily quote 11 Mothers who think 87 21st 47 21st2 30 21st3 19 21st4 14 Smithsonian 18 average: 32.4 Approx. 10:30 AM PST March 27, 1998; surfing from Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; connected via T-3?; using Navigator 4; Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 32 seconds International papers 12 Other magazines 32 Contents 27 Search 47 (Dr. Watson for Windows NT: (an application error has occurred...) average: 42.5 seconds ------------------------------------- Salon contents 4 Media Circus 9 Media Circus2 4 Dickenson 7 Dickenson2 5 Wanderlust 7 Wanderlust2 3 Coupeland 5 Posts of the Week 3 average: 5.2 seconds Approx. 9:00 PM PST March 27, 1998; surfing from Home; connected via 28.8K dialup line to Berkeley; using Navigator 4; Surf Express installed. Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 296 seconds Readme 56 Week/spin 25 Chatterbox 66 International Papers 25 Other magazines 30 average: 83 seconds ------------------------------- Salon contents: 18 seconds Salon recommends 18 Salon rec. 3/20 15 Salon rec. 3/13 20 average: 17.8 seconds APPROXIMATELY 11:00 AM MARCH 31; SURFING FROM OFFICE CONNECTED VIA ETHERNET TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 70 seconds Week/spin 9 Pundit Central 42 International papers 12 Other mags 16 News quiz 6 Recycled 23 (why can't it jump directly to (the article?) Chatterbox 22 Summary judgmeent 8 back to contents 54 Pinker 30 Smiley 10 average: 30.2 seconds ------------------------------------- Salon contents 12 Intel 30 Power cults 11 Cults2 9 Newsreal 17 News2 3 Daily quote 3 Media 17 Moyers 9 Moyers2 6 Oscars 8 Sneak preview books 23 Buddha Bob 6 Interviews--D. Allison 18 Allison2 9 Ian MacEwan 14 MacEwan2 12 Crouch 12 Crouch2 4 Always in Pursuit 4 average: 11.8 seconds APPROXIMATELY 7:00 PM PST MARCH 31; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate signin 74 seconds (an error occurred (during login) Slate contents 130 Chatterbox 85 Michael Lewis 307 Keeping Tabs 90 Cullen Murphy 150 average: 167.2 ------------------------------- Salon contents 55 Yellow Journalism 33 YJ2 16 Burkett 37 Burkett2 18 average: 31.8 APPROXIMATELY 7:00 PM PST APRIl 3; SURFING FROM HOME CONNECTED VIA 28.8K DIALUP TO BERKELEY; NAVIGATOR 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents 87 seconds Slate readme 16 Strange bedfellows 44 Frameset 36 Moyers 47 Week/Spin 51 Other magazines 53 average: 47.7 --------------------------------- Salon contents 27 21st 65 Roiphe 43 average: 45.0 Approx. 4:00 PM PDT April 14, 1998; surfing from office; connected via ethernet to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 52 seconds Chatterbox 34 International papers 8 Summary judgment 11 News quiz 9 Spin 9 Pundit Central 8 Other Mags 10 Recycled 7 Gist 34 Culturebox 15 Dick Morris 11 Seems to me 10 Reply all 30 Assessment 23 Dismal science 15 Strange bedfellows 15 Readme 10 Daffodils 42 Poem 9 Books 63 Books2 33 Prudence 11 Francis Bacon 20 Civility 28 Movies 29 average: 21 seconds -------------------------------- Salon contents 287 seconds (timed out) average: 347 seconds Approx. 7:00 PM PDT April 18, 1998; surfing from home; connected via 28.8 K to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 104 seconds Week/spin 38 Chatterbox 72 Other mags. 35 Readme 32 Assessment 76 Flame posies 84 Strange bedfellow 77 average: 65 seconds ----------------------------- Salon contents 22 seconds Editorial 48 Starr Strikes back 29 Scaife--CNN 30 Kenneth in Wonderland 24 21st 24 21st page 2 11 21st Challenge 11 Let's get this straight 6 Let me software go 22 Consider the source 22 Apple and snake 20 Media--Stuff and Gear 16 average: 21.9 seconds Approx. 9:30 AM PDT May 6 1998; surfing from office; connected via Ethernet to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 91 seconds Chatterbox 46 Back to contents 29 Culturebox 45 Spin 23 Pundit Central 51 Other Mags 30 Gist 27 Egghead 28 Back to contents 117 Slate links 44 Readme 36 Assessment 31 Strange Bedfellows 42 Sarah Kerr 59 Back to contents 83 Stock market 20 Vote yes 19 Glassman 22 Crook 11 average: 42.7 ------------------------------------------------- Salon contents: 14 seconds Geeks and aliens 24 Geeks and aliens2 20 Arthur Clark 11 News 15 News2 13 Spin Cycle 9 Spin2 6 Newsroom Salaries 12 Daily Quote 8 Waas 11 LBJ 16 LBJ2 12 Sheer Rage 14 Student Body 13 average: 13.2 Approx. 9:00 PM PDT May 7, 1998; surfing from home; connected via 28.8 K to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 104 seconds Approx. 1:00 PM PDT May 12, 1998; surfing from office; connected via ethernet K to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 87 seconds Week/Spin 26 Other magazines 19 Cyberbattle 76 Shawn 33 TV 25 Diary 12 average: 39.7 ----------------------------------------- Salon contents: 24 seconds Deprogramming 26 Deprogramming2 13 Clinton and Netanyahu 20 Daily quote 19 Clinton and Netanyahu2 3 Changing partners 10 Changing partners2 6 Judicial Watch 3 Daily quote 6 Dorfman 11 21st 11 Wired Web 25 Travel 14 Travel2 16 average: 13.8 Approx. 11:00 AM PDT May 15, 1998; surfing from office; connected via ethernet K to Berkeley; using Navigator 4: Page Time to load until article is readable ==== ====================================== Slate contents: 96 seconds Chatterbox 39 Back to contents 64 Week/spin 41 Gist 53 Other magazines 14 Readme 40 average: 49.6 --------------------------------------- Salon contents: 14 seconds Rage... 29 21st 20 Godwin2 7 Straight 6 News 15 Suharto2 6 India Bomb 6 average: 12.9 ================================================== Date and Time Slate Salon ------------- ----- ----- March 2 day 26.4 11.4 March 3 day 33.1 12.4 March 3 night 54.0 14.0 March 4 day 40.2 16.9 March 4 night 110.7 44.2 March 5 day 39.5 11.5 March 5 night 53.6 29.0 March 6 night 65.6 16.1 March 10 night 207.7 34.6 March 14 night 48.0 19.3 March 16 day 14.7 7.4* March 17 night 65.3 28.8 March 18 night 81.8 28.9 March 19 night 286.5 40.6** March 24 day 23.0 10.4 March 24 night 60.5 32.4 March 27 day 42.5 5.2* March 27 night 83.0 17.8 March 31 day 30.2 11.8 March 31 night 167.2 31.8 April 3 night 47.7 45.0 April 14 day 21.0 347.0 April 18 night 65.0 21.9 May 6 day 42.7 13.2 May 12 day 39.7 13.8 May 15 day 49.6 12.9 *From Federal Reserve Bank of Boston **Internet Explorer
Professor
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University of California at Berkeley
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