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Pingdom on January 7th, 2009 by Pingdom
As Lifehacker noted yesterday, Mr Uptime is now (finally) available for Firefox 3. Mr Uptime for Firefox 2 proved to be highly popular, and we have received a lot of requests for an updated version for Firefox 3, so here it is!
For those of you not familiar with Mr Uptime, it’s a Firefox extension (from us here at Pingdom) that will make sure you don’t miss cool content online just because a website is temporarily down.
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Main on August 29th, 2008 by Pingdom
Digg has become synonymous with “social news”, but there are a number of other sites with similar concepts out there, many of them with their sights set on trying to remove Digg from the throne. We have looked at the traffic trends for 10 different social news sites to get an idea of how it is going for Digg and its competitors.
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Main on March 13th, 2008 by Pingdom
Some faces in IT we see over and over again. The media write about them practically every week. We figured we would show you some pictures you DON’T normally see. Linus Torvalds, Linux As you’re used to seeing him. Young Linus having a good time. (We skipped the one were his shirt’s gone off. No [...]
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Main on February 5th, 2008 by Pingdom
In November we posted a list in our blog of old Apple Macs that are being used as web servers. Being an uptime monitoring service, we figured we would monitor their uptime and see how they were performing. The post actually ended up on the front page of Digg, which threw an unexpected amount of [...]
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Main on January 31st, 2008 by Pingdom
Digg has a problem. That problem is that the more users Digg gets, an increasing amount of the stories that reach the Digg front page are bound to be unavailable, brought down by the storm of visitors from Digg. If Digg keeps growing it will automatically kill almost any site that reaches the front page. [...]
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Main on August 22nd, 2007 by Pingdom
Have you ever wondered what technology some of the really big websites use? The likes of Digg, YouTube, Myspace and so on? There is a very interesting website called High Scalability that is dedicated to, as they put it themselves, “building bigger, faster, more reliable websites.” They collect information about the architecture of high-traffic websites [...]
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Pingdom on August 10th, 2007 by Pingdom
Sometimes websites don’t respond or have other problems. We got tired of missing cool articles and websites for this reason, and then not remembering to revisit them later. That is why we created a Firefox extension that will tell you when a broken website is working again. The problem: There is an annoying problem that [...]
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Main on June 11th, 2007 by Pingdom
The Pingdom Tools Full Page Test was on the front page of Digg yesterday. Even though we of course wanted the word out, this was a little more than we expected. It actually turned out to be a great stress test. We were getting more than 10,000 web page test requests per hour, which is [...]
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Main on May 28th, 2007 by Pingdom
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 [...]
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Main on May 24th, 2007 by Pingdom
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 [...]
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