The US authorities’s website to assert free COVID assessments, which has began accepting orders a day earlier than it was scheduled to, is drawing in a lot of tourists — greater than each different authorities web page mixed, in response to the government’s own analytics site.

Web site visitors numbers change by the second, however at 1:32PM ET, once I ran the report back to obtain real-time numbers for all governmental pages, COVIDTests.gov (together with its FAQ web page and variations of the location in different languages) had 685,817 guests. The customer counts for the three,853 different pages included within the report totaled 419,615. Traffic doesn’t appear to have dropped since then.

There have been issues that the location wouldn’t be capable of deal with the load because it was introduced. So far, although, it appears to be dealing with the frenzy — although it’s at all times potential we might see a good larger wave of tourists on the location tomorrow, the date most of the people was instructed it will go reside.

That’s to not say that issues have been completely clean. Several individuals have reported that dwelling in an condo constructing may cause points, with some residents receiving an error message that assessments had already been ordered for his or her deal with. As the Associated Press reports, it’s onerous to inform how widespread the difficulty is, and there have been conflicting stories on the best way to remedy it.

The authorities has dedicated to sending out 500 million assessments, with a restrict of 4 per family. If you’re trying to order yours, you’ll be able to learn our information on how to take action right here.