Content Management Captured the Gold
Vignette, a member of the consortium that worked for the event's official Web site, www.athens2004.com, released some traffic figures
Throught the implementation the Athens Olympic Committee was able to manage 100 percent of its content, changing the layout of pages, instantly posting competition results, publishing press releases, updating venue information, and communicating schedule changes without external support or programming.
Throughout the games, says Vignette the site was able to manage more than 100,000 distinct Web pages in each of the three languages (English, French and Greek), with 9,000 distinct information channels for segmented audiences, more than 21,000 pieces of news, 3,800 event results (contained on more than 8,000 pages), 40,000 athlete biographies, more than 7,500 photographs, and 45,000 static files such as images and PDF files of event locations, etc.
Through the duration of the games, the United States visited the site the most. After the United States, Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom rounded out the top five. Citizens of the host country, Greece, visited the site sixth most frequently.
Launched in December 2003, the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games Web site is integrated with all the live result feeds generated by the Olympic events, ensuring that visitors have access to the final results within minutes of the completion of the event, making it by far the fastest place to find the most current results. The feed for real-time information provided up-to-the-second information about ongoing events, peaking at as many as 20 updates from different information feeds per second. The feed for official information provided final results for all the sports within minutes of the completion of each event.
OTEnet, a leading Greek Internet and IP services provider, was the project manager and responsible for the development, hosting and operation of the official Web site of the Olympic Games, ATHENS 2004. The project requirements, the application specification and acceptance, and the content operation were run by the ATHOC Internet team. Vignette's robust and scalable content management platform was implemented in conjunction with the company's prime partner, Greek Geeks (FDS Building Your Web) and a local consortium including Delta Singular for application development, supported by Vignette Professional Services. Key requirements included real-time integration with ATOS Origin for sports results feeds, and Akamai for the content delivery network. This enabled the ATHENS 2004 Web site to handle a large amount of content and information and to effectively support intense peaks of traffic, so that anyone who wanted to access information found the site ready and available. To date the site has scaled to manage more than 800 million page views in three languages, with peaks of 53 million page views in a single day several times during the games' duration. Key results from high-profile events were consistently available in under three minutes.
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