It’s funny how even today, in 2022, people still ask me if WordPress is a good choice for a high-traffic website. There are few website-building solutions on the internet as tested as WordPress. And brands like TechCrunch and The New Yorker wou...
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2021 Pingdom Web Performance Year in Review
Welcome to 2022! We hope it will be a great year. First, the team at SolarWinds® Pingdom® would like to thank all Pingdom users for their support and loyalty in 2021. Thank you for trusting us to monitor your websites, servers, and services ... -
2021 AWS Outage and How To Prevent Your Websites and Applications From Being Impacted
December 7 started as a typical, but busy, pre-holiday weekday. This included a mix of booming online retail sales ($33.9 billion spent during cyber week), packages flooding delivery services, and high online traffic. But much of that quickly came to... -
Web Performance of the World’s Top 50 Travel Sites in 2021
2021 holiday travel has been a rebound for the industry. Just this week, I was attempting to purchase flights for a long weekend before travel picks up for the holidays. However, after a failed attempt to sign up for their Executive Club and enduring... -
Web Performance of the Top 50 E-commerce/Retail Sites in 2021
We analyzed the performance of the top 50 e-commerce/retail sites before the holiday shopping rush officially kicks off. What sites are ready? -
Web Performance of the World’s Top 50 Blogs
Am I the only one who thinks blogs were in their prime in the mid-2010s, before the internet began consuming content at wicked fast rates (thanks, Instagram and TikTok)? When someone says the word blog, I think of the chokehold 2015 southern American... -
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Down for Over Five Hours
Did you unconsciously open Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp several times throughout the day on Monday, only to get a “Couldn’t refresh feed” message? Did you try again every 20 or so minutes? Did you maybe even restart your phone, ... -
The Pingdom Guide to the Internet
We may be biased, but we think we’ve had some great blogs that are informational, impartial, and (hopefully) not boring to read about all things related to what’s happening on the internet. Looking back at our blog&md... -
What We're Working On for Pingdom (Updated: January 2022)
Since the post was last updated we have released the Web Transaction Recorder for Mac, MFA support, updated the Live Chat experience and added email verification for login. Many of these features were delivered as part of our commitment to harden the...
