No matter how often you test the performance of your site, we all know that sometimes, outages or other errors are inevitable. That said, we’re always on the lookout for unique, innovative or informative error messages. Here’s one we came across today, implemented by the “deal of the day” company, Groupon. Groupon launched its first [...]
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Twitter’s performance issues continue
Twitter’s taken a lot of flak in the past few weeks for lack of availability and poor performance all around. Not only has the site been flooded by World Cup fans tweeting game updates and reactions, but Twitter has simultaneously been performing some upgrades and enhancements to the site. The combination of these elements has [...]
5 Web Errors You Never Want Your Customers to See
After dedicating countless hours, dollars and other resources into developing your Web site, the last thing you want is for your customers not to be able to access it. Downtime and inaccessibility can occur for a number of reasons, but the results are almost always the same: frustrated, sometimes even lost customers and missed opportunities [...]
Twitter Not Scaling to be the 911 System for the World
Twitter has become so many things to so many individuals and organizations: a social network, a platform to share your knowledge and interests, a marketing vehicle, or a way to share news about interesting events in real-time. Our monitoring shows Twitter’s Web site was completely down from 6:43 a.m. – 7:43 a.m. EST yesterday morning. [...]
Update: Cyber Monday Performance and Sales a Success
Online retailers are pulling out all the stops this year to attract shoppers and boost sales this holiday season. And according to initial Cyber Monday reports, it seems to have paid off. The National Retail Federation reported that sales over the holiday weekend (Thanksgiving Day through Sunday) rose 0.5 percent to $41.2 billion, and Coremetrics [...]
Performance of Online Retailers [Relatively] Strong on Cyber Monday
Earlier today, CNN reported a 39 percent jump in Web traffic when compared to the same time last Cyber Monday. So far, the home pages of most online retailers are holding up surprisingly well. With the exception of Kohl’s this afternoon, and TigerDirect earlier this morning, most major online retailers are exhibiting close to normal [...]
Google News Faces Outage on Tuesday Afternoon
Google News experienced another pretty significant outage yesterday. The URL http://news.google.com was mostly unavailable between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET. AlertSite’s monitoring showed about 27% availability during that time, but it was only that high because of a few positive results from some of our monitoring locations earlier and later during that window. The [...]
Twitter Sick From Too Many Apple Fans
It was recently suggested by my spouse that I might be becoming a bit of an Apple-ista. I have been an enthusiastic iPhone user for almost two years and am truly impressed with the latest rendition. A Macbook Pro has recently been added to the household computing arsenal as well, so there may be some [...]
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