Report: YouTube ranks high in downtime
Elinor Mills Former Staff Writer
Elinor Mills covers Internet security and privacy. She joined CNET News in 2005 after working as a foreign correspondent for Reuters in Portugal and writing for The Industry Standard, the IDG News Service and the Associated Press.
Which of the 20 most popular U.S. Web sites has been down the most so far this year? Google-owned Blogger.com was down the most, at 4 hours, 47 minutes, followed closely by another Google property--YouTube--which was down 4 hours, 44 minutes, according to a report by Pingdom, a company that monitors uptime of Web sites.
Yahoo had 100 percent uptime, while Google itself was logged as having been down for 7 minutes.
"Microsoft sites had pretty hefty downtime as well," Om Malik wrote on his GigaOm blog. "Big surprise in the list Comcast.com--which is now the #17 ranked site on Alexa--and it had only 3 minutes downtime."