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Archive for August, 2008

Website performance Q&A with Steve Souders from Google

Steve Souders, the creator of YSlow and the author of the book High Performance Web Sites, is one of the most respected experts on website performance in the world. We here at Pingdom are big fans of his work, and decided to probe his mind about the excellent YSlow Firefox add-on for evaluating website performance [...]

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Finding out which web hosting companies really are the largest ones can be difficult. This article takes a number of different factors into consideration to not just find out which ones are the largest today, but also which of them are growing the fastest. Today’s leader may not be tomorrow’s. When we talk about the [...]

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iPhone disaster strikes! Noooooooooo!

(We would like issue a warning to sensitive viewers. This can be hard to watch. ) The iPhone finally launched here in Sweden this July and some of us at Pingdom have already bought one. We love our iPhones. So we can only image what it must feel like to have your shiny new iPhone [...]

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Owner of Knol.com to get €1 million from Google?

As we mentioned last week, Google, in spite of already having launched their Knol website, doesn’t own the domain name Knol.com. It is owned by Dutchman Hilco Knol, who sells steam cleaning equipment on that URL. He hasn’t sold the domain name yet, but it seems like he has been approached by Google with a [...]

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Google shows impressive traffic spikes on Ubuntu release days

Look at this traffic graph for Ubuntu.com from Google Trends. Gee, wonder when they released new versions of Ubuntu?

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