Twitter.com's website downtime increased 400% during World Cup

Posted on 8 August 2010, 11:27
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, 2010- The global website monitoring company Uptrends reports that while Twitter.com, the popular micro-blogging site, may have enjoyed some of its heaviest usage throughout the course of the 2010 World Cup, it also had confirmed website downtime which was 400% higher t... [More]
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Pingdom Desktop Notifier

Posted on 28 December 2009, 17:54
Do you have a website? Do you like knowing that it’s working ok? Pingdom exists for this very reason, to alert you when your site has downtime, so you can fix it. With this in mind we have released a new application that we call the Pingdom Desktop Notifier, which sits in your Windows s... [More]
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Rackspace Goes Down. Again. Takes The Internet With It. Again.

Posted on 20 December 2009, 21:37
Another day, another Rackspace outage. The hosting company had a complete and total failure today that took down a number of big sites on the Internet, including ours. This has been happening all too often in recent months, including downtime just last month. The failure apparently originated in... [More]
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Frustration, distress over Google outage

Posted on 19 May 2009, 10:31
Millions of people got a taste of life without Google on Thursday after its search engine, e-mail and other products slowed or became inaccessible because of a glitch. The outage, which lasted nearly two hours, prompted a wave of distress and frustration among users, highlighting just how de... [More]
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Google downtime

Posted on 15 May 2009, 21:32
I have just read on the office Google blog that Google was down for a while. This is your pilot speaking. Now, about that holding pattern... 5/14/2009 12:15:00 PM Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. An... [More]
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Google's Gmail unavailable

Posted on 12 August 2008, 10:20
This message was posted on the Gmail website after the website was unavailable for users and visitors. We feel your pain, and we're sorry Monday, August 11, 2008 6:05 PM Posted by Todd Jackson, Gmail Product Manager Many of you had trouble accessing Gmail for a couple of hours this after... [More]
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Uptime US newspaper websites better than UK newspaper websites

Posted on 7 July 2008, 15:56
Amsterdam - June 16, 2008 - Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, today reported that some newspapers websites experience serious downtime and are not available for visitors. Three of the fifteen UK newspapers had an uptime of below 99.0 perce... [More]
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Enhanced Self-Service Load Testing Solution Helps Web Applications

Posted on 25 June 2008, 16:21

Enhanced Self-Service Load Testing Solution from Gomez Helps Businesses Deploy Web Applications with Confidence

Reality Load XF℠ Combines End-user Experience Testing with Traditional Load Testing

Lexington, Massachusetts — May 27, 2008 — Gomez, Inc., a leading provider of web experience management services, today introduced an updated version of its self-service load testing solution, Reality Load XF. Part of the Gomez® ExperienceFirst℠ platform, Reality Load XF combines traditional high volume web. [More]

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Another Amazon outage

Posted on 20 June 2008, 16:08
Another Amazon outage, this time hitting U.K, too

 

These availability charts from Keynote Systems show Amazons U.K. site, top, dropping largely off the Net then crawling back. The U.S. site showed more intermittent problems.

These availability charts from Keynote Systems show Amazon's U.K. site, top, dropping largely off the Net, then gradually recovering. The U.S. site, the lower chart, showed more intermittent problems.

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Four ways to speed up your landing pages

Posted on 16 June 2008, 12:11
If your landing pages are taking too long to load up, then potential customers are going to get restless and may choose to click on another link.

 

This is even more important since Google decided to include landing page load times in its Quality Score criteria earlier this year, meaning that advertisers pay more for poorly performing pages.

This means that you need to test the loading speed of your landing pages, to see if there are any issues you need to deal with.. [More]

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