Here's What Really Happens To Web Traffic When Facebook Goes Down

Facebook was down for a while on Wednesday. An easy assumption is that when Facebook is down traffic to other sites drops, because people are no longer being directed anywhere from the hugely popular social network. The team over at Chartbeat, a New York City startup that makes real-time web-analytics tools, helped us figure out what really happened.  Here's how mobile traffic across roughly 3,000 sites that Chartbeat tracks looked during the Facebook outage: Here's how desktop traffic was affe...