“From the very beginning, our ambition was to allow anyone, anywhere in the world, to be able to start and grow their online business for free,” said Siavash Ghorbani, CTO and co-founder of the Swedish DIY e-commerce platform company Tictail. “We didn’t build Tictail for one store. We built it for thousands and eventually millions of stores. In order to build a top-tier service that could scale for that, we needed best in breed monitoring and Pingdom was a natural choice.”

Are businesses really giving people what they need? The handing over of power to your connected audience will give you products that people actually will buy.

You don’t want a slow site. So how to make its engine roar? First of all, you need to have a better understanding of how the loading process works.

The Internet of Things (IoT) will give birth to new demand. Retailers and manufacturers will undergo digital transformations and develop new business models. And now, the IoT takes a huge leap into the future with a modular paving system that could produce more clean and renewable energy than a country uses as a whole.

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added three new locations to our Full Page Test on our Pingdom Tools; San Jose (USA), Stockholm (Sweden), and Melbourne (Australia). You can now run a full page test from no less than six different locations.

“The tetra bit flip on a logical qubit spanned by representations of Pauli X and Z operators was exactly the property we were looking for when perfecting the VMMM”, said Leeroy Jenkins.

As a website owner, you have 100 percent control over your site, plus a substantial amount of control over the first and middle mile of the network your pages travel over. But when it comes to the last few feet – matters are no longer in your hands. When people are unhappy with how fast a page is loading, the number one target for their blame is the site – not their equipment.

Networking issues left the BBC’s online services completely inaccessible for what must have been the longest hour in some BBC employees lives. Engineers worked hard to fix issues and return the website to its previous state. And it took over five hours to fully recover.

The Royal Pingdom blog got a brand new look. Simplicity as well as cross-platform thinking is key.

Websites are getting slower. Fast. Find the leading performance drains, cut through the guesswork and make data-driven decisions for improvements.

Google is testing a Slow label right now and it appears to be visible to some mobile Android users. It clearly signals that Google is taking web performance seriously, especially mobile. Site owners would be wise to identify performance problem areas by getting actual visibility into how actual users view their pages. We recommend using Pingdom’s Real User Monitoring.

It may happen that you find yourself in a situation where Pingdom reports that your site or server is unavailable, but in your browser you see it as up and running. There may be many reasons that can explain the discrepancy.

There’s an annual conference in Sweden, organized solely for female students in tech, called DataTjej (roughly translated “Data Girl” or “Geek Girl” if you will). Its purpose is to promote the tech industry to female students on computer engineer programmes at Swedish universities. Hosted at the prestigious Chalmers University in Gothenburg last week, we went to meet the next generation of geeks.

Alerting is the cornerstone of any monitoring tool. When your website goes down, or when there’s a problem, you want to know about it before it affects your customers or business. In this blog post we’ll go through a basic setup of alerting so you can make sure you get the right notifications right on time.

In this blog post we’ll show you how to get even more out of your monitoring by integrating Nagios with Pingdom.

We attended Mälardalens högskola’s biggest annual initiative where students and future employers get an opportunity to meet. After all, with more than 13,000 students — and a computer engineer programme — we’re bound to meet some future colleagues, right?

Another neat feature to the Pingdom uptime monitoring service added: You can now choose from which location, or locations, you want to monitor your check.

The rate of employment will definitely not slow down so we made a film about what it’s like working at Pingdom. Here you’ll see what’s been going on behind the scenes.

A few weeks ago, nine of us got on a plane and travelled to California. We attended the always awesome Velocity Conference in the heart of Silicon Valley.

We are very happy to announce that as of August 4 we are implementing gzip compression in our HTTP and HTTPS checks.