Imminent bloat warning: JavaScript size up 48% in one year
May 17, 2012
Websites are getting more dynamic, and more heavily scripted. JavaScript is going through something of a renaissance...
Has the time come for web designers to embrace the SVG image format?
May 15, 2012
Display resolutions are increasing every year, something that’s being taken to its extreme with the recent “retina display” trend that came with the...
The booming growth of Internet’s DNS infrastructure
May 4, 2012
As we noted a couple of weeks ago, the number of Internet users has doubled in the past five years . To handle...
No US city among the 50 best-connected cities on the Internet
May 2, 2012
The United States is the “founding father” of the Internet, so it’s somewhat ironic that none of the 50 best-connected cities in the...
10 questions about web performance – James Ward at Heroku
April 26, 2012
In this continuing series of interviews about web performance, we now turn to cloud application platform provider Heroku . ...
Another reason why it’s a good thing Flash is going away
April 19, 2012
Flash usage is declining, and to be perfectly honest, that isn’t a bad thing. ...
Uptime and performance of US e-commerce websites during December 2011 (study)
February 2, 2012
Out of the 59 US-based e-commerce sites we monitored during the holiday season last year 28 scored a perfect 100% uptime for December....
Pingdom Podcast #5
February 2, 2012
Pingdom’s Mobile Podcast is a weekly show about Internet, web, and mobile stuff. In this show we covered the following topics: Welcome Updates...
Google Chrome’s amazing growth spurt. The top web browser by June 2012?
July 1, 2011
When you research web browser statistics and trends, one thing soon becomes clear: Google Chrome is on a tear. It’s gaining users, fast....
Top 10 supercomputers in numbers
June 29, 2011
Top500.org recently released updated statistics about the fastest supercomputers in the world. They do this twice per year, and every time the reports...
Jumping on the Eco-Friendly Bandwagon: Green Web Hosting
June 22, 2011
With the controversy surrounding global warming, many web hosts are opting to go green to reduce the impact of carbon footprints left on...
IBM Creates World’s First Graphene Circuit
June 15, 2011
The world’s first grapheme circuit, carrying the ability to host frequencies as high as 10 GHz, has been developed by IBM; it was...
Reasons Why Shared Hosting Is Less Reliable Than Other Hosting Types
May 10, 2011
Shared hosting is usually the first type of hosting that webmasters purchase when beginning their online endeavors, primarily because it is cheap, abundant,...
The Overlooked Disadvantages of CAPTCHAs
April 27, 2011
Web developers and web hosting companies have been collaborating to try and combat spam with various methods for years. One method that is...
An Overview of the Three Main Hosting Types
April 12, 2011
Web hosting is simply a service that allows you to lease a web server, which can be used to provide server resources to...