Yottaa and our friends at Amazon Web Services recently teamed up for a webinar that discusses in detail the performance challenges of
today’s web, and how to overcome them. 

We’d like to thank all our attendees – we had some
great dialogue and it turned out to be Yottaa's best-attended webinar yet! If you couldn't attend the live presentation, we invite you now to view a recording of the webinar and slides.  Below, you'll find a preview of what's in the presentation!

First, a history lesson: how trends on the web in the last decade have led to poorer performance, not better performance.

Earlier this month, Yottaa Monitor detected that a number of websites had simultaneous and very similar performance issues.

The proliferation of a single type of performance problem is interesting regardless, but this case was especially urgent: the sites were entirely inaccessible for all visitors.  That’s a big problem. 

Even more alarming was the sheer number of sites that were experiencing downtime. After analyzing the stats, we found that, out of the tens of thousands of sites on Yottaa Monitor, around 3% were affected. In the wider Internet, the percentage was likely similar.  We’re talking millions of sites potentially down for hours. This can have a hugely detrimental impact on conversions, user experience, and website credibility. 

Today the Daily Princetonian, the student paper at Princeton University, ran a provocative op-ed on its website.  It wasn't the most scandalous article the Internet has ever seen, but it had enough buzz factor to draw attention within and beyond the sphere of Princeton.

Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS attacks) are the stuff of nightmares for a website owner.  Major attacks are nearly unpreventable and can shut down a site entirely for hours or even days.  When you see a big site go down – be it VISA or the CIA or Wordpress – a well-orchestrated DDoS attack is likely behind it.  DDoS is a go-to tool for attacks by hacktivist groups like Anonymous and its various splinter groups, as well as terrorist groups around the world. And DDoS can happen to anyone, as the nonprofit computer hardware organization Raspberri Pi found out last week.  

So your website is slow, and you don’t know why.  Poor first/last byte performance is one reason it might be. Here’s how to find out if it’s what’s ailing you —and your site visitors!

Mobile phone users in Asia want to visit your website. They want what you're selling. But can they get it? Global companies with the desire to reach web users outside the US and Western Europe face a big challenge: slow cell networks. 

The Superdome losing power wasn't only the major outage of Super Bowl XLVII. Thirteen - that's right, thirteen - Super Bowl advertisers' websites went down for this year's #BurstBowl. Last Friday, we put out predictions for which websites we thought would crash. We accurately predicted with three out of our five picks (boo ya!). So let's take a look at the biggest busts of the night.

2012 brought us some of the worst website outages and downtime in recent memory. Here’s the list that made our top 15.

In a recent blog post, I wrote about a Facebook widget slowing down Lenny Kravitz’s new web site.

To drill into this a bit more, I decided to monitor performance of just that asset – monitoring the Facebook widget using Yottaa’s network of real browsers located across the planet.  The goal was to assess:

1. What is the nominal performance of the widget?
2. How reliable is it?
3. How often are there performance outliers, and how bad are they?

The GoDaddy outage of September 10th, 2012 brought down 45 million sites, drawing attention to the “dirty little secret” of the hosting community: Even the world’s biggest hosting companies lack a world-class DNS infrastructure.

So what exactly happened – and how can your site avoid being a casualty of a DNS outage?

We at Yottaa are hosting a series of webinars to help you answer these questions, learn about DNS, understand the key risks and issues, and understand how to prevent being a victim of such an outage in the future.

Here's a recording and slides from the webinar, covering:

• What is DNS, and its role in making the web work
• The GoDaddy DNS Debacle: What happened and why
• Key criteria for choosing a DNS provider
• Free Global DNS Services

Who should view it: Business owners, web developers, and marketing professionals who want to improve their website's scale, availability, and security.