Some UK betting websites coped better than others with the flood of online wagers during Friday’s Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Research by Capacitas, specialists in preventing websites from crashing, has found that some of the leading sites struggled with the surge of online betting around Friday’s Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Capacitas’ monitoring of the large bookmakers’ websites found that during the busiest periods of the Cheltenham Festival the time for a page to load on William Hill exceeded two seconds, with Bet365 and Betfair also close to this critical threshold at which punters begin to seek other operators.
Capacitas director Danny Quilton said: “When a website slows or even crashes, it loses customers to its rivals – especially for time-sensitive events like horse races.
“Our monitoring found that three of the leading bookies had websites that were operating slowly because of the increase in demand during Friday’s Cheltenham Gold Cup.
“In contrast PaddyPower was the winner by more than a clear length, over 10 times faster than most of its rivals, and Coral performed well across the afternoon too.”
