The first day (midnight to midnight) of the release of the 1911 Census went very well - we served up 3.4 million searches and 17.4million pages to 645,000 visitors who made 827,000 visits between them .

Technically the site held up exceptionally well - we used only a fraction of the available capacity available on the servers, meaning that the site reponse was fast with few errors all day: it remains so into the second day.