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Main on September 25th, 2008 by Pingdom
As of this writing, if you go to Cisco.com you will be greeted by a strange sight. All “t” letters have been removed from their text and source code. Not only does it make the text look funny but since the source code is also changed, no styles or scripts are working.
This is how the page currently looks, t-less:

The HTML code makes you understand why it looks a tad unstyled:
<ile>Cisco Sysems, Inc</ile>
<link rel="syleshee" ype="ex/css" href="/web/fw/c/home.min.css" />
<scrip ype="ex/javascrip" src="/web/fw/j/home.min.js"></scrip>
The “title” tag becomes a “ile” tag and stylesheet becomes “syleshee”. No wonder the browser has a hard time to understand the code.
And of course, i doesn’ exacly make he ex easier o undersa…
hanks o Jonahan for poining i ou
UPDATE: Everything seems to be back at normal now. (Probably after some frantic scrambling by Cisco’s webmaster.) The problem seems to have lasted at least a couple of hours.
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Main on February 9th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom
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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Main on February 8th, 2012 by Pingdom

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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Main on February 7th, 2012 by Pingdom

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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Main on February 6th, 2012 by Pingdom
The New England Patriots held what seemed to be a commanding lead (17-15) with five minutes left of Super Bowl XLVI last night. But the New York Giants came back and managed to win with 21-17.
As exciting as the game sounds, we missed the whole thing, instead spending our time watching the Superbowl.com website.
It turned out to be a rather dull thing to do because the site held up well and there was no downtime at all. The response time also didn’t give away anything significant in terms of online Super Bowl traffic.
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