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CNET Download.com, the mega-popular software download service, was down for more than an hour on Tuesday evening. The website is ranked as the 111th most trafficked in the world.
Other popular CNET websites such as News.com, Gamespot and Gamefaqs were also unavailable during this time. Considering the downtime occurred in the evening in the US, and [...]
How much a single website is offline can vary a great deal from month to month. Some months, everything can be flawless, not a minute of downtime, while other months, perhaps thanks to one or more network outages or server problems, a website can be unavailable for hours.
Therefore it would be interesting to see how [...]
Red Hat, one of the more popular Linux distributions, especially for servers, is taking pretty good care of their website (which we assume runs on Red Hat Linux…).
Downtime for the Red Hat website in 2007
January 2h 30m
February 10m
March 1m
April 39m
May 0
June [...]
Google News and Yahoo News are the two largest news aggregators (and news search engines) in the world. Both Google and Yahoo earn their money mainly through advertising, and these websites have so much traffic and so many page views that any downtime they have will be very expensive since it becomes the equivalent of [...]
Myspace and Facebook are the two giants in the social network arena. We let them face off in three categories: the number of searches in Google, website traffic, and availability. All to see which one comes out on top.
Website traffic
How much traffic do they have? The answer is “a lot”. According to Alexa.com (www.alexa.com), Myspace [...]
Google Search users in the United States are 10 times more likely to encounter a problem than users in Brazil, according to this unique one-year survey from Pingdom.
Google has a large number of localized versions of their Google Search homepage. We have monitored the uptime of Google Search for 32 different countries during a whole [...]
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 [...]
We recently reported that Yahoo’s main website (www.yahoo.com) has had no downtime at all in 2007. The website appears to be rock solid, and has built up an impressive uptime streak.
Early this morning, however, the Yahoo Search website (search.yahoo.com) had trouble. The website was unavailable for 1 hour and 36 minutes starting at 06:46 CET [...]
In their latest newsletter, dedicated server hosting company ServePath used data from Pingdom GIGRIB to show that even large, super-established websites have downtime.
Above: Part of the ServePath newsletter.
The list was taken from our April post with downtime numbers for the Alexa top 20 websites. We actually posted a new, updated list last Tuesday.
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(This is an update with new data. The previous survey was done on April 2.)
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 [...]
