Technical problems have plagued eBay in the past, so when the site achieved 99.9% accessibility in the third quarter of 2001, it sent out a press release calling it the "highlight of the year." eBay's site performance has improved as it continues to experience large increases in traffic - a 57% increase the week of December 9th compared to the same week in 2000. Maynard Webb, president of eBay Technologies, said that eBay supported 250 million page views per day, and sent out more than 1.2 giga-bits of data per second, during peak usage during the third quarter. According to Jupiter Media Metrix, Inc., during the week of December 9, 2001, the number of average daily unique visitors to the eBay marketplace reached approximately 4.7 million.
