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Pingdom synonymous with uptime?

IDG.se, the largest source for IT news in Sweden, published an article today with the title (translated) “Pingdom could become synonymous with uptime.” The article mentions how Pingdom is increasingly being used as a source for uptime data in various international IT magazines and websites. The analogy they use is how Alexa.com has become famous […]

Theoretical vs real-world speed limit of Ping

Ping is the favorite tool of network administrators for testing connectivity and response time over networks, but is there a limit to how fast response times can get? Of course there is. The answer is c. Ultimately response time over a network is limited by the speed of light. In a vacuum, light travels with […]

Add Pingdom Tools to your website

You may have noticed the latest addition to the Pingdom website: Pingdom Tools, a set of free utilities for webmasters. The first available tool tests the load time of a web page including all its objects such as images, scripts, etc. You can see the size, load time and type of every single object on […]

Pingdom writing for .net magazine

Sam Nurmi is at it again. After having articles published in Vitamin and Center Networks, Pingdom’s CEO now has an article (see picture) featured in the Web Pro section of issue 164 of the very well-respected .net magazine. Issue 164 of .net magazine goes on sale today (May 29). Go grab a copy. It’s a […]

Pingdom WordPress plugin available

Elliott Bäck has created a really cool Pingdom plugin for WordPress. The plugin displays your uptime for the last 30 days directly in your blog’s sidebar. From the announcement: WP Pingdom brings the power of Pingdom’s automatic site monitoring to your WordPress blog, allowing you to include your uptime statistics on your blog in textual […]

Reddit twice as fast as Digg

Netscape, Digg and Reddit have “social news voting” in common, but their actual website design is quite different. We decided to take a closer look at their websites using the Full Page Test in Pingdom Tools. Site Load time Size Objects Images www.netscape.com 2.3 seconds 438.2 KB 105 94 www.digg.com 2.2 seconds 271.3 KB 76 […]

Pingdom Tools – The webmaster’s new best friend

Now you can finally find out why a website loads so slowly. Is it that huge banner, or because the site is using more than 300 images? Pingdom Tools is meant to be a great set of utilities for webmasters and other curious web dwellers. First out is the Full Page Test, a tool for […]

Digg, Slashdot, Netscape fight for 100% uptime

This three-week uptime survey of 11 social bookmarking sites shows 100% uptime for Digg, Fark, Slashdot and Netscape. Other sites are less fortunate. Digg and Del.icio.us are at the forefront of social media and web 2.0, but they are far from alone. They have plenty of competing services, and these social bookmarking sites are getting […]

Yahoo Search website trouble

We recently reported that Yahoo’s main website (www.yahoo.com) has had no downtime at all in 2007. The website appears to be rock solid, and has built up an impressive uptime streak. Early this morning, however, the Yahoo Search website (search.yahoo.com) had trouble. The website was unavailable for 1 hour and 36 minutes starting at 06:46 […]

ServePath using Pingdom uptime data

In their latest newsletter, dedicated server hosting company ServePath used data from Pingdom GIGRIB to show that even large, super-established websites have downtime. Above: Part of the ServePath newsletter. The list was taken from our April post with downtime numbers for the Alexa top 20 websites. We actually posted a new, updated list last Tuesday. […]

The importance of uptime to a web startup

Sam Nurmi, Pingdom’s founder and CEO, has written an article for Center Networks about the importance of uptime to web startups. It goes into detail about how downtime will affect your users, and in what ways it could end up costing you both growth and money, as well as put a serious dent in your […]

Nine out of ten switch to a competitor if your website is down

The web hosting company 1&1 asked 1,600 UK consumers (via survey company Tickbox.net) about their reactions to slow or broken websites, with some very interesting results. For example, nine out of ten people would switch to a competitor’s website if a company’s website fails to load. The survey results also show that consumers are generally […]

Web downtime statistics for April 2007

This month we continue our unique survey of website downtime on the internet. We have used data from Pingdom GIGRIB to calculate the average website downtime in April (based on over 2,000 sites). We have also estimated the downtime of the web as a whole. The average website downtime The average website downtime in April […]

Pingdom buttons for your website

Several of our customers have asked us for “monitored by Pingdom” buttons. Your wish is our command. We have now created a couple of small banners (or buttons) that you can add to your website to show that you are using Pingdom uptime monitoring. It’s one way to show your visitors that you take uptime […]

Blazingly fast report pages are here

As we reported just over two weeks ago, we were having some problems with slow report pages in the Pingdom control panel. (Lately we have been growing faster than we ever expected.) This problem has been resolved and the report pages are now very fast and responsive. We have optimized our databases and our report […]

Videos showing how to get started with Pingdom uptime monitoring

If you’re curious about what it takes to get started with Pingdom uptime monitoring, look no further. We have added three short instruction videos to the Pingdom website. Why short? Because getting started with Pingdom takes no more than five minutes from start to finish, including the sign-up. The videos show you the sign-up process, […]

There is no “in the middle of the night” on the web

One of the best things about the web is that it’s global, but this can also be a great challenge for webmasters. When you want to do maintenance on your website, you have to keep in mind that it’s always daytime somewhere. As the saying goes, the web never sleeps. Let’s take an example. 2 […]

Top 20 DNS server map shows US internet dominance

The US has long held a dominating position in the web hosting industry. One way to examine this is to look at which DNS servers hold the most domain names. It turns out that 16 of the 20 largest DNS servers in the world are located in the US. Aside from the US, only Germany […]

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