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Enhance your site performance with data from actual site visitors

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Real user insights in real time

Know how your site or web app is performing with real user insights

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Instant visibility into servers, virtual hosts, and containerized environments

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Comprehensive set of turnkey infrastructure integrations

Including dozens of AWS and Azure services, container orchestrations like Docker and Kubernetes, and more 

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Comprehensive, full-stack visibility, and troubleshooting

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Complete visibility into application issues

Pinpoint the root cause down to a poor-performing line of code

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Top 7 website errors revealed and explained

Who hasn’t had a problem accessing a website on the internet? Our guess is that there isn’t anyone out there who has had an error-free experience of the web. But what are the main reasons for all these problems? We decided to find out. Since Pingdom is a website monitoring service with thousands of customers […]

Sorry, Center Networks, no Feedburner uptime data

Allen Stern over at Center Networks noted yesterday that it seemed like the RSS delivery service Feedburner was having some issues. He then made an interesting comment: Where is Pingdom with an uptime report? We would have loved to help you out, Allen, but unfortunately we don’t have any Feedburner monitoring data of our own […]

Independent monitoring data adds credibility

A while ago, Pingdom published a report on the availability of online storage services, showing how often they were offline. For any such service on the internet, availability is a very important factor. The service that scored best in the test was MailBigFile. They have capitalized on the value of having independent third-party information that […]

Download.com down on Tuesday

CNET Download.com, the mega-popular software download service, was down for more than an hour on Tuesday evening. The website is ranked as the 111th most trafficked in the world. Other popular CNET websites such as News.com, Gamespot and Gamefaqs were also unavailable during this time. Considering the downtime occurred in the evening in the US, […]

Vacation times bring more website downtime?

How much a single website is offline can vary a great deal from month to month. Some months, everything can be flawless, not a minute of downtime, while other months, perhaps thanks to one or more network outages or server problems, a website can be unavailable for hours. Therefore it would be interesting to see […]

Hats off for Red Hat uptime

Red Hat, one of the more popular Linux distributions, especially for servers, is taking pretty good care of their website (which we assume runs on Red Hat Linux…). Downtime for the Red Hat website in 2007   January 2h 30m February 10m March 1m April 39m May 0 June 0 July 54m August 4m September […]

New Pingdom feature: Mail server monitoring

We have just added three new dedicated check types for monitoring mail servers, one each for SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. For these check types, the connection to the specified mail server uses the selected email protocol (SMTP, POP3 or IMAP), something which gives you a very reliable indication that the mail server is up and […]

Google News more reliable than Yahoo News

Google News and Yahoo News are the two largest news aggregators (and news search engines) in the world. Both Google and Yahoo earn their money mainly through advertising, and these websites have so much traffic and so many page views that any downtime they have will be very expensive since it becomes the equivalent of […]

Pingdom growing, 188% increase in six months

Back in March (March 27, to be exact) our uptime monitoring network was performing 100,000 checks per hour. This means 2.4 million tests of websites and servers every day. We keep saying that we are growing, and guess what? In the six months since then, this number has increased to 287,909 checks per hour, which […]

Myspace vs. Facebook – Trends and numbers

Myspace and Facebook are the two giants in the social network arena. We let them face off in three categories: the number of searches in Google, website traffic, and availability. All to see which one comes out on top. Website traffic How much traffic do they have? The answer is “a lot”. According to Alexa.com […]

Pingdom report in eWeek, Times, CNET, and more

Last week we (Pingdom) released a survey of the uptime of Google’s localized homepages for 32 countries. It turned out to be very popular. So who wrote about it? Here are a few examples: eWeek, Times Online, PC Magazine, NetworkWorld, CNET News.com, CNET Webware, TechCrunch, GigaOM, WebProNews, IDG in Sweden and in Brazil, IT Wire, […]

New Pingdom feature: Pausing monitoring and alerts

(To be honest, we added this feature almost a month ago, but here is a proper introduction.) Sometimes you may want to temporarily pause monitoring of some of your websites or servers, or you may want an easy way to temporarily disable alerts to one or several of your contact persons (or all of them!). […]

Google engineer comments on Pingdom survey

TechCrunch was one of the places that wrote about the Google uptime report we published last week, where Google’s Brazilian homepage turned out to have the best uptime. Interestingly enough, it looks like a Brazilian Google engineer has commented on the article. See screenshot from TechCrunch below. For those who prefer plain text, here is […]

Google availability differs greatly between countries

Google Search users in the United States are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem than users in Brazil, according to this unique one-year survey from Pingdom. Google has a large number of localized versions of their Google Search homepage. We have monitored the uptime of Google Search for 32 different countries during a […]

Hosting company with 0% uptime

There are good hosting companies, bad hosting companies, and then there is No Uptime. Yes, of course it’s all a joke, but it’s a very funny and very well made website. 🙂 Image: If your website downtime ever starts to follow this trend, you might want to consider switching to another host. Their slogan says […]

Pingdom has detected 1.2 million site outages in 2007

There is a lot of downtime on the internet, more than most people are aware of. That is why we figured it would be interesting to share how many website and server outages we have detected for our customers so far during 2007. Number of outages in 2007 From the start of 2007 until today, […]

New Pingdom feature: Detailed error descriptions

Starting this week, it is possible to see the exact reason why a server or website is detected as down by Pingdom. This will make it much easier for you as a user to pinpoint exactly what is wrong, and should help you find the problem faster. This is not a feature you need to […]

404 error campaign in motion

We realized that it might be interesting to have a record of what the 404 error campaign looked like and ”behaved” even after it is gone. In other words, a video… So here it is, for your viewing pleasure and with a little bit of help from YouTube: Above: This is our first YouTube video! […]

Love and hate for the 404 error campaign

If you have visited the Pingdom homepage in the last few days, you have seen a 404 error message instead of our regular homepage. However, it is actually a campaign where we have changed the error message from “404 page not found” to “404 price not found” (see the image below). We thought this was […]

404 – Price not found

We have just launched a campaign on the Pingdom website. Why do people use uptime monitoring? A huge reason is to know if there is a problem with their websites or servers. No one is immune against downtime, but sometimes it can be hard to explain the point of using uptime monitoring in a simple […]

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