The (very) uneven distribution of DNS root servers on the Internet
May 7, 2012
As we reported last Friday , the number of DNS root servers on the Internet has grown significantly the past few years. ...
WordPress completely dominates top 100 blogs
April 11, 2012
WordPress is no doubt a very popular web publishing platform for blogs and other types of websites. But just how popular is it...
What if smartphones were as popular in China as they are in the USA?
January 23, 2012
We have pointed out China’s amazing potential before on this blog, and we have also made detailed comparisons between China and the USA....
Forecasting NGINX and IIS web server software growth in 2012
January 11, 2012
Last week we published an article declaring that NGINX had become the second most used web server software in the world, thereby overtaking...
Huge Internet milestone just around the corner: 100 million registered .COM domain names
October 19, 2011
The Internet’s favorite top-level domain is close to hitting a huge milestone. The .com domain is now on the brink of reaching 100...
The social networks of yesteryear. How the mighty have fallen
September 26, 2011
The current big international social networks are Facebook , Twitter , LinkedIn and the newly formed Google+ , and perhaps Tumblr , if...
WordPress.com about to hit 20 million blogs. Tumblr in hot pursuit.
May 10, 2011
WordPress.com , the popular blogging service from Automattic built on top the world-famous WordPress software, is about to hit another major milestone: 20...
USA vs. China on the Internet
April 19, 2011
Arguably, there are currently only two superpowers on the planet: the United States and China. Now that the world is growing increasingly dependent...
Twitter once again proves its worth in Japan earthquake aftermath
March 14, 2011
During and after the earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan this Friday, local phone networks became overloaded. Not just because of damage to...
New public report from Pingdom enters beta
February 8, 2011
Starting today all Pingdom users can try out our new and improved public report pages, seen here below. ...
Web designers, keep those page sizes down. It’s for your own good.
October 27, 2010
You probably hate slow websites. So do we, and it’s pretty safe to say that it’s a universal rule. There are a number...
The incredible growth of the Internet since 2000
October 22, 2010
It doesn’t feel like 2000 was all that long ago, does it? But on the Internet, a decade is a long time. Ten...
The consistent failure of Linux to grab even 1% of the desktop OS market
August 10, 2010
Linux has been around for almost two decades now. It has become a resounding success as a server OS (for example as the...
The massive dominance of .com (charts)
July 9, 2010
The .com top-level domain has dominated the Internet pretty much from the start, and that’s still the case. But how strong is this...
The modern browser wars: How well Firefox, IE and Chrome succeed in getting their users to upgrade
April 8, 2010
We all know the by now woeful tale of Internet Explorer 6, which close to a decade after its arrival still has a...