BBC Sport online purebred a record 55 million visits from gadgets around the world during the Olympic Games.
Some 37 million were from inside of the UK, the BBC said. The figure includes both mobile and P.C. access.
On 1 August, when cyclist Bradley Wiggins won his bullion award in the men's time trial, there was more traffic to the BBC website than during the whole FIFA World Cup in 2010.
There were moreover 106 million requests for online video during the games .
This was up from 32 million during the Beijing Olympics.
Nearly two million people downloaded the BBC's Olympics smartphone app on both Apple's iOS and Google's Android platforms.
"Our dream was that only as the Coronation did for TV in 1953, the Olympics would do for digital in 2012," mentioned Phil Fearnley, General Manager, News and Knowledge, BBC Future Media.
"We betrothed audiences would never skip a short time of the Games. We delivered on the guarantee and will erect on this to leave a durability digital bequest for audiences in years to come."
The many streamed online videos were the tennis singles last matches in that Serena Williams and Andy Murray won bullion medals. They were requested 820,000 times by assorted internet devices.
Other renouned video clips noticed online enclosed German diver Stephan Feck's 'zero point' dive, Cuban stick vaulter Lazaro Borges' stick gnawing mid-vault and Usain Bolt's opening in the men's 100m final.
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