Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Website monitoring | |
Owner | SolarWinds |
URL | pingdom.com |
Alexa rank | 19,159 (April 2020)[1] |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Required |
Users | 500,000 (2014) |
Launched | 2005; 15 years ago |
Current status | Active |
- Better Uptime is as you might guess by the name, monitors and improves your.
- Pingdom offers cost-effective and reliable uptime and performance monitoring for your website. We use more than 70 global polling locations to test and verify our customers' websites 24/7, all year long. With Pingdom you can monitor your websites' uptime, performance, and interactions for a better end-user-experience.
- Reliable uptime monitoring with voice calls and beautiful on-call scheduling.
Pingdom Server Monitor collects key performance metrics automatically: CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, and process data are gathered from every server. Go from zero to 100% visibility typically in minutes. Pingdom Server Monitor automatically monitors new servers when they come online. The Pingdom Android app lets you connect to your Pingdom uptime monitoring service and view the current status of the servers and websites you are monitoring. It is a handy companion when receiving an alert while on the go. Features - Get alerts as push notifications directly to your Android device - Quickly resolve outages with new and improved root cause analysis.
Pingdom AB is a Swedish website monitoringsoftware as a service company launched in Stockholm and later acquired by the Austin, Texas-based SolarWinds.[2] The company releases annual reports on global internet use, which are frequently cited in academic publications[3] and by media organizations as a source of Internet-related statistics.[4][5][6][7]
History[edit]
Pingdom was launched in 2005 in Västerås, Sweden, but only became popular in 2007.[8][9] The website monitoring company was founded by the Swedish entrepreneur Sam Nurmi, who had previously founded Loopia Web Hosting and who would go on to found Dooer.[9] As of 2012, the company reported sales of 22.5 million Swedish kronor.[10] By 2014, the company, then owned by the private equity firm Nurmi Drive controlled by its CEO, reported 500,000 customers in 211 countries and employed 30 people.[11][12] In June 2014, the software company was acquired by the Austin, Texas-based software developer SolarWinds for $103 million.[12]
In May 2017, SolarWinds acquired the San Francisco-based company Scout Server Monitoring and merged the software with Pingdom.[13]
Product and reports[edit]
Pingdom has servers located in several countries used to measure the latency of the websites it monitors.[14][15] It can report whether a website is down due to network splits or failure in DNS servers.[14] Pingdom functions by regularly pinging websites to check whether the site is accessible to users. The software will continuously ping the website at higher rates until it determines that it is again operational.[16] Pingdom also generates a report detailing how long the site was down.[17] The user receives an email notifying them of any downtime as soon as it occurs and again when it ends.[18] The monitoring tool can also determine how long it takes a website to load fully, how many files it constitutes, and the number of scripts and images required to load.[19]
Pingdom publishes reports on global Internet use and country-specific data on visitors to popular websites like Facebook.[20] The report also includes data on the location of the hosts for many of the most visited websites in the world as determined by Alexa Internet. In 2012, Pingdom was able to determine that about 43.1% of the top 1 million websites were hosted in the United States, compared to the 31.3% hosted in all of Europe.[21] The company also publishes Royal Pingdom, a blog on a variety of Internet-related topics.[22]Royal Pingdom is frequently cited in academic publications[3] and by media organizations as a source of statistics on a variety of websites.[4][5][6][7]
Reception[edit]
In its September 2017 review of the service, PC Magazine praised the software as 'fast and comprehensive', pointing out that 'the only downside is that all this goodness is wrapped in a difficult interface that requires a steep learning curve to leverage.'[2]
References[edit]
- ^'pingdom.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic'. Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ abMarvin, Rob (2017-09-20). 'Pingdom'. PC Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ abOECD Review of Telecommunication Policy and Regulation in Colombia. OECD Publishing. 2014-04-09. p. 92. ISBN9789264208131.
- ^ abHorn, Leslie (2012-01-18). 'What Happened On the Internet in 2011?'. PC Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ abReisinger, Don (2012-06-28). 'Is Pinterest more popular than Tumblr in the U.S.?'. CNET. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ abSchroeder, Stan (2013-01-17). 'The Internet In 2012: 634 Million Websites, 2.4 Billion Users'. Mashable. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^ abProtalinski, Emil (2011-10-07). 'Facebook is bigger than the whole Internet was in 2004'. ZDNet. Retrieved 2018-11-12.
- ^'Pingdom kan bli synonymt med uppetid'. IT24 (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ ab'Drog in halv miljard på Pingdom – här är Sam Nurmis nya projekt'. Breakit (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^'Dagens HIT-bolag: Pingdom'. Computer Sweden (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^'Nytt USA-köp i Sverige'. Computer Sweden (in Swedish). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ abHawkins, Lori. 'Austin-based SolarWinds acquires Stockholm-based company'. Austin American-Statesman. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^'Austin's SolarWinds buys San Francisco server-monitoring company'. Austin Business Journal. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ abGonzalez, David (2017-10-04). Implementing Modern DevOps: Enabling IT organizations to deliver faster and smarter. Packt Publishing Ltd. ISBN9781786464002.
- ^Kloostra, Simon (2015-05-21). Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance. Apress. pp. 130–31. ISBN9781484211243.
- ^Dwyer, Gareth; Aggarwal, Shalabh; Stouffer, Jack (2017-03-31). Flask: Building Python Web Services. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 451. ISBN9781787285446.
- ^Dwyer 2017, p. 453. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDwyer2017 (help)
- ^Dwyer 2017, p. 452. sfn error: no target: CITEREFDwyer2017 (help)
- ^David, Michael (2015-10-28). WordPress Search Engine Optimization. Packt Publishing Ltd. p. 276. ISBN9781785887802.
- ^Cohen, David (2011-12-29). 'Study: 69 Percent Of Cyprus Population Is On Facebook'. Adweek.com. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^McCarty, Brad (2012-07-02). 'Pingdom: The US Leads Worldwide Website Hosting'. The Next Web. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^Potter, W. James (2015-07-23). Introduction to Media Literacy. SAGE Publications. ISBN9781483379609.
External links[edit]
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What tool do you use to test the speed of your website? GTmetrix or Pingdom? Or maybe another one?
In this article, I would like to analyze the differences between the two most popular tools to evaluate a website’s performance, also suggesting which of the two, in my opinion, is the most reliable.
GTmetrix And Pingdom: Why Are The Results Different?
If you have ever run tests of the same web page using GTmetrix first and then Pingdom, you will have noticed that the results can be very different.
Do not you believe it? Here is the proof. Here are the screenshots of the results I got with the two tools.
Testing the Google site, the differences, although present, are not particularly significant, for some websites I happened to get very different results.
Let’s see what this discrepancy depends on.
Test Location
First, pay attention to the region you are testing from. If you decide to compare the results of GTmetrix and Pingdom, you need to make sure that the location from which the test is performed is the same.
Affinity photo 1 8 1. With Pingdom, you can select it from the drop-down menu next to the URL, while on GTmetrix, you will need to have a free account. Otherwise, the test will be performed by default from Canada.
Recommendations And Suggestions
There is no doubt that GTmetrix is the complete tool regarding details on what affects your website’s speed.
Based on two reports, namely PageSpeed and YSlow, it can analyze 45 different characteristics of a site, show a score for each of them, and inform you how much each one is relevant in contributing to the loading speed.
The indications provided by Pingdom are much less numerous (just 11), but this indeed entails greater ease of use by those who are not very experienced in the sector.
Although both tools rely on the PageSpeed Insights libraries, both GTmetrix and Pingdom have introduced some rules of their own, causing a discrepancy in the results to be created when the same website is tested.
Full-Page Load
Pingdom Test
Reading this far, you may have already guessed that my favorite tool is GTmetrix, but perhaps, by trying them both, you noticed that the Pingdom tool shows shorter loading times most of the time. We also see it in the image above that shows my test: the speed detected by Pingdom is about half that of GTmetrix.
Only this feature could make you decide always to use Pingdom, but don’t let yourself be tempted! In reality, the most accurate data is that of GTmetrix.
By default, the latter adds to the measurement of the complete page load also a specific period in which there is total inactivity.
This means that all the time it takes for the page to load its resources (such as images and CSS) is calculated, but it also includes loading other elements, such as ads.
This result is much more realistic than Pingdom, which uses only the page load time and its primary resources.
As a result, your page may seem fast with Pingdom, but it hasn’t been 100% loaded in reality.
Is Pingdom or GTmetrix Better?
So, in light of these differences, I believe that GTmetrix is primarily a more reliable and more complete tool.
The reports are extremely detailed, and each item contains a link to an in-depth article that will explain precisely how you will need to take action to improve that particular aspect of your site.
Also, it contains a real automatic image optimization tool. If you open the Optimize images item, you will see the list of all the images that can be compressed to save kilobytes, and for each, you will find the link to the optimized image.
Just click on See optimized version to open the image in the browser and, with a simple Save As, you can use it instead of the heaviest one on your site.
The same thing happens with JavaScript and CSS files. Click on the link under Minify JavaScript and Minify CSS to download your properly minified file.
News explorer 1 9 7 esv. Finally, I would like to add that GTmetrix allows you to set advanced options, such as:
Pingdom Tools Speed
- The choice of the browser from which to perform the test;
- Blocking ad loading;
- Creating a slow-motion video that shows precisely the critical moments during the upload;
- The ability to enter user and password to analyze protected pages.
On the other hand, Pingdom does not have any particular settings that you can customize, except the one relating to the test location.
Conclusion
Pingdom Tools
It’s up to you to decide which tool to test the speed that best suits your needs. If you are looking for a quick and straightforward system that highlights only the main aspects for better performance, then I suggest Pingdom.
If, on the other hand, you prefer to work in more detail and obtain ever faster loading times, and if you also have the skills to interpret more in-depth reports, then go for sure with GTmetrix.
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