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Main on November 21st, 2011 by Pingdom
Over the past year, web pages have on average become 25% bigger. We’re not talking about dimensions here, but download size. Based on the top 1,000 websites on the Internet, the average page size has gone from 626 kB to 784 kB.
A 25% size increase in just one year is rather drastic. With that kind of growth, the average web page will be 980 kB in just a year (amost 1 MB!). In five years, a page will be almost 2.4 MB. And that’s just an average, many pages will be significantly larger.
What is behind this exploding growth? Let’s find out.
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Main on November 25th, 2010 by Pingdom
Text and numbers are all good and well, but sometimes it’s nice to just be presented with a nice visual.
This post is full of videos of just that, interesting visualizations of data. Being the geeks we are, they’re of course all related to the Web and the Internet.
Enjoy!
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Main on May 6th, 2009 by Pingdom
Sometimes when you try to visit web page, you’re met with an HTTP error message. It’s a message from the web server that something went wrong. In some cases it could be a mistake you made, but often it’s the site’s fault.
Each type of error has an HTTP error code dedicated to it. For example, if you try to access a non-existing page on a website, you will be met by the familiar 404 error.
Now, you might wonder, which are the most common HTTP errors that people encounter when they surf the Web? That is the question we’ll answer in this article.
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Posted in
Main on March 18th, 2008 by Pingdom
There has been a lot of talk about the decline of Apache’s dominance as a web server, with competition from IIS and other alternatives like Lighttpd, but Apache is still king of the hill when you look at the top 100 websites in the US. We here at Pingdom have noted a very wide range [...]
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Posted in
Main on October 19th, 2007 by Pingdom
Who hasn’t had a problem accessing a website on the internet? Our guess is that there isn’t anyone out there who has had an error-free experience of the web. But what are the main reasons for all these problems? We decided to find out. Since Pingdom is a website monitoring service with thousands of customers [...]
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Main on July 31st, 2007 by Pingdom
Whenever you try to access a web page that doesn’t exist on the web server you get a 404 error page. You’ve all seen the standard 404 “page not found” message a thousand times by now, and it gets old real fast. So, wouldn’t it be nice if that error page was a little more [...]
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Posted in
Main on June 15th, 2007 by Pingdom
The HTTP status code 404 means that a web page could not be found on the server. This is normally a bad thing. No webmaster wants to see this when accessing his/her own website. So, considering we are in the uptime business, trying to banish as many of these 404 messages as we possibly can [...]
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