These are the 20 most popular websites in the United States, according to Alexa. In other words, they have tons of visitor traffic. How are they holding up under that pressure? Here you can see the downtime so far in 2007 for each of these 20 websites, as measured by GIGRIB.

Downtime in 2007 for the Alexa top 20 websites

Each site below links to its GIGRIB report page where you can examine their uptime and downtime more closely.

    Site		Downtime
 1  yahoo.com		   0m
 2  google.com		   7m
 3  myspace.com		1h 0m
 4  msn.com		2h 45m
 5  ebay.com		   6m
 6  youtube.com		4h 44m
 7  facebook.com	   25m
 8  wikipedia.org	2h 23m
 9  craigslist.org	1h 9m
10  live.com		1h 48m
11  amazon.com		   21m
12  blogger.com		4h 47m
13  go.com		   8m
14  aol.com		   3m
15  microsoft.com	   13m
16  cnn.com		   22m
17  comcast.net	   	   3m
18  imdb.com		   29m
19  flickr.com		   30m
20  photobucket.com	1h 23m

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