I know you are like myself, who love Google so much that everyday we have to visit Google numerous times; either to search for websites/information, use their fantastic gmail email service, or to check how much we have earned in adsense. To you and me, seems like this mega popular website which millions of people are using every second is always up and running – no downtime. But, do you know in 2007, Google was down for a total 7 minutes?!
I didn’t say that, Pingdom did in a report released recently. In the report, Pingdom lists the top 20 websites ranked by Alexa and their total downtime in 2007. Pingdom is a company who provides uptime and response time monitoring for sites and services on the web.
Leading the downtime (most downtime) is surprisingly YouTube and Blogger, both belong to Google. Perhaps they are getting too much traffic and break under pressure, but I just couldn’t tolerate the 4 hours plus of downtime in just 3 months time. Blogger users, time to get your own domain! Contact me if you need advice and help in this department.
The only website with no downtime at all is Yahoo.com. Well done, Yahoo, but when are you going to make Yahoo Publisher Network available to us? 🙂