Reuters

Federal officials said Sunday they had achieved their goal of making Healthcare.gov work smoothly for the vast majority of users.

"The site is now stable and operating at its intended capacity," Jeffrey Zients said in a morning conference call with reporters that formally announced the achievement of a trio of goals.

As expected, Zients—the former health-care-management consultant and Office of Management and Budget official tasked with leading the website-repair effort—said the site would now be able to serve 50,000 users at the same time and had reduced error rates and page-load times to acceptable levels.

"The bottom line: Healthcare.gov on December 1st is night and day from where it was on October 1st," Zients said.

To drive that point home, the Department of Health and Human Services released a report that detailed just how badly the site was functioning in October and early November. According to the Healthcare.gov Progress and Performance Report, the site was offline more than it was online in at the start of November:

Zients said uptime in October was similar to what was seen in that first week of November. That means that by the time President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden on October 21 to urge people to use a 1-800 number instead of Healthcare.gov, the site had been functionally offline the majority of the time during its first three weeks.