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November 8, 2007

Online food inspection reports prove popular

After visitors swamped the newly online restaurant inspection report feature on the Health Department Web site, a state Health Department official said in an e-mail the department has contacted its service provider to see what can be done to improve response time.

Some may not have been able to access the reports at all, and the Health Department, in anticipation of the site's popularity, had posted a notice asking online visitors for patience.

Ernest Julian, chief of the Office of Food Protection at the Health Department, said in the e-mail that as of 4:36 p.m. today there had been 158,650 hits to the search page and 23,218 hits to the main page.

In a two-hour hour period after lunch, there was an average of 224 hits per minute according to the counter on the search page.

But Julian said that while response time at 4 p.m. was minutes, at 4:30, he received a response on the site within seconds.

A projo.com check at this time immediately brought up the search page for the reports.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 6:57 PM | Permalink

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