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It looks like summer is taking its toll on general website stability around the world.
Average monthly website downtime
March 119 minutes
April 120 minutes
May 115 minutes
June 139 minutes
As you can see, there is a significant downtime increase in June. Compared to the average of the previous three months (118 minutes), June adds 21 minutes of extra downtime. That is an increase by almost 18%. Could it be that the summer holiday is having an effect?
Vacation times = more downtime?
Considering that summer is when a lot of people go on holiday, including technical staff, it’s possible that there simply aren’t as many qualified people around to solve problems when they arise. And when problems don’t get fixed, or get fixed poorly, you get more downtime. Less available staff can also increase the time it takes to respond to a problem.
We look forward to seeing the average downtime figures for July and August. If this theory holds, downtime will go back to hover around the two-hour mark by fall.
About the survey
Data source: The average website downtime is calculated from a set of more than 2,000 websites monitored by Pingdom GIGRIB.
Read more: Downtime report for March. Downtime report for April. The March report has more details about how the statistics are calculated.
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Mobile podcast on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
Pingdom’s Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, security, and mobile stuff.
In this show, Saleh also gives us an update on the pending approval of his Carbon for Windows Phone Twitter client. We also talked about Nokia’s recent financial results, if Google Chrome can hit more than 50% market share this year, and the recent privacy-blunder by the guys behind the Path mobile app.
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There’s no denying that Google Chrome continues to be the darling of the web browser market. And as we predicted in July last year, Chrome overtook Firefox around November 2011.
So now the question is, when will Google also wrestle down Internet Explorer, and become the undisputed king of the browser world? In December 2011, Chrome 15 became the most popular browser in the world, beating Internet Explorer 8, but if you combine all IE versions, Microsoft still holds the number 1 spot.
Equipped with the latest web browser statistics from StatCounter, we set out to see when Chrome is likely to achieve more than 50% market share.
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Want to see how your favorite US sports site is doing, if it has a perfect 100% uptime score or not? If you want to check the latest scores and it isn’t working, could it be a problem with your computer or connection, or the site? We’ve got the solution for you!
For some time now we’ve been monitoring 34 major US sports and news sites related to sports. Our recent articles on the Super Bowl are a result of that monitoring.
Now you can look at how these sites are doing yourself on the public reports page for this list of US sports websites.
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Who has not used Google Maps? Raise your hand! Since the launch 7 years ago, Google Maps has become the de facto map service that users around the world go to for all their mapping needs.
As we say Happy Birthday to Google Maps, read on to find out some of the critical milestones in its history, and some amazing numbers and statistics.
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In 2010, there were just over 1 million secure Internet websites worldwide. Almost half of those, or 446,992 to be exact, were located in the United States.
But in which country can we find the most secure websites in relation to population? The answer may surprise you.
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