Cyber Monday Shoppers Endure Surging Online Traffic

Cyber Monday Shoppers Endure Surging Online Traffic

During the Cyber Monday shopping rush, PayPal and Target both had some website problems. Target’s site couldn’t handle the heavy traffic for a bit, similar to what happened with PayPal, as shared by users and retailers on social media. Target acknowledged the high traffic on their homepage and asked customers to be patient until things got back to normal. PayPal’s issues were first noticed around 8:35 a.m. Eastern time, with Down Detector showing a heatmap of problems in North America and Europe.