Interest in 1940 US census paralyzes National Archive website, with millions of user ‘hits’ - The Washington Post Miriam Kleiman, spokeswoman for the U.S. National Archives, told The
Associated Press that the site registered more than 22 million hits in
just four hours on Monday, from almost 2 million users. In a tweet
posted after 5 p.m. on its official Twitter account, the archives said
the website had received 37 million hits since the information was
released at 9 a.m.