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Updated Pingdom iPhone and Android apps now available
We just wanted to let you know that we recently updated our iPhone and Android apps. So what’s new in this version? Mainly two things: The ability to pause/unpause monitoring. We added a toggle control...
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Want pain? Try loading today’s websites over dial-up
Even today, in 2012, some people don’t have broadband Internet connections, relying instead on phone lines and those good old dial-up modems. By today’s standards, those connections are extremely...
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How many sites have Facebook integration? You’d be surprised.
Facebook has become a huge presence on the Web. A full 24.3% of the top 10,000 websites in the world have some form of official Facebook integration on their homepage. And if you include regular links...
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The Web loves jQuery, and here are the numbers to prove it
We’re big fans of the JavaScript library jQuery, and it appears we are far from alone. As of June this year it’s used by 54.7% of the top 10,000 websites in the world. That’s a massive endorsement by...
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Google Analytics is a home run – 62% of the top sites use it
When Google bought Urchin Software in 2005 and released its Urchin on Demand service for free to the entire Internet, the company transformed the web analytics industry forever. All of a sudden there...
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How popular is Varnish? (Plus words from its creator)
A really effective way to speed up a website is to add some form of caching layer in front of it. If your web server doesn’t have to keep generating the same web pages over and over, odds are things...
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The best CDN for jQuery in 2012
Since its creation by John Resig in 2005, jQuery has become one of the most widely used JavaScript libraries on the planet. It’s used by more than half of the top 10,000 websites in the world, and...
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Fun and unusual HTTP response headers
HTTP response headers are usually pretty dry reading, but once in a blue moon you do stumble upon something that makes you smile. Here are some of our favorites. We’ve bolded the interesting parts,...
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Exploring the Software Behind Facebook, the World’s Largest Social Media Site
At the scale that Facebook operates, several traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and...
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The Five Most Common HTTP Errors According to Google
Sometimes when you try to visit a 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...
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