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Tech blog on February 26th, 2013 by Pingdom
Pinterest can’t challenge Facebook’s 1.06 billion users, but it seems to prove that you don’t need a lot of employees to get a lot of users.
Being a rising star in social media, Pinterest is expanding both in employees and in users. According to our numbers, Pinterest clearly beats both Facebook and Twitter when it comes to the number of users per employee, being the most efficient company in social media right now, at least in that respect.
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Tech blog on January 16th, 2013 by Pingdom

There is so much happening on the Internet during a year that it’s impossible to capture it all in a blog post, but we’re going to give it a shot anyway. How many emails were sent during 2012? How many domains are there? What’s the most popular web browser? How many Internet users are there? These are some of the questions we’ll answer for you.
To bring you these answers, we’ve gone to the ends of the web – wherever that is – and back again, and compiled a list of truly fascinating facts about the year that was. Some of the numbers are snapshots taken during the year, others cover the entire period. Either way, they all contribute to giving us a better understanding of Internet in 2012. Enjoy!
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Tech blog on December 22nd, 2012 by Pingdom

This is our collection of must-read articles about web performance, dev and ops for the weekend.
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Tech blog on December 14th, 2012 by Pingdom

This is our collection of must-read articles about web performance and ops for the weekend. There’s something about Facebook, Twitter, Real User Monitoring, memcache, NGINX, and more.
We regularly bring you a collection of links to places on the web that we find particularly newsworthy, interesting, entertaining, and topical. We try to focus on some particular area or topic each week, but in general we will cover Internet, web development, networking, web performance, webops, security, and other geeky topics.
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Tech blog on October 22nd, 2012 by Pingdom
Want to know what Internet users in Sweden do online each day? When most Swedes start using the Internet? What they buy online? Answers to all of that and more can be found in this report, just released by the Internet Infrastructure Foundation in Sweden.
Even though we really love stats and really digging into them, at 69 pages in total, this report is a bit beyond what we would call easily digestible
So, quite simply, we thought we’d summarize it, highlighting some of the more funny and interesting aspects of the report.
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Tech blog on August 21st, 2012 by Pingdom

Do you know how old the average Twitter or Facebook user is? Do you know what share of Reddit’s users are women? We could go on and on; when it comes to social network demographics, the questions are endless. This article is going to answer those questions for you, showing you the age and gender distribution on 24 of today’s most popular social networks and online communities.
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Tech blog on August 10th, 2012 by Pingdom

This is our collection of must-read articles for the weekend. There’s something about SPDY, web performance and the London Olympics, Varnish, and more.
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Tech blog on August 7th, 2012 by Pingdom

When regular people post on Twitter, they normally use something like Twitter’s website or one of its official clients, or possibly a third-party Twitter client like Tweetbot or Echofon. Many large companies, however, have a more organized approach to social media and use special tools to manage their social presence.
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Tech blog on August 3rd, 2012 by Pingdom

This is our weekly collection of must-read articles for the weekend. There’s something about mobile web, front-end optimization, CDNs, JavaScript, and more.
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Tech blog on July 30th, 2012 by Pingdom

Over the past few years, social networks have become a major communications channel for today’s brands and companies. That’s why it’s surprising to see that even now, in 2012, many of the world’s top brands have a relatively weak presence on both Twitter and Facebook.
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