Performance and Uptime of URL Shorteners

INTRODUCTION

WatchMouse monitored the availability (uptime) and performance (page load speed) of the most popular URL Shorteners from februari 24 through maart 28, 2011.REPORT_INTRO_MORE

 

A blog article including observations, analyses and performance statistics of the most popular URL Shorteners that were monitored by WatchMouse can be viewed at: WatchMouse Blog

 

Beschikbaarheid

PR_REPORT_AVAILABILITY

 

# REPORT_WEBSITE REPORT_UPTIME REPORT_DOWNTIME
BudURL 100.00 0 minuten
fb.me 100.00 0 minuten
goo.gl 100.00 0 minuten
amzn.to 99.99 4 minuten
binged.it (bitly.Pro) 99.99 4 minuten
bit.ly 99.99 4 minuten
is.gd 99.99 4 minuten
lnkd.in 99.99 4 minuten
ow.ly 99.99 4 minuten
10  j.mp 99.98 9 minuten
11  mcaf.ee 99.97 13 minuten
11  lnk.ms 99.97 13 minuten
11  youtu.be 99.97 13 minuten
14  y.ahoo.it 99.95 22 minuten
15  wp.me 99.94 27 minuten
16  fwd4.me 99.93 31 minuten
17  tinyurl.com 99.90 45 minuten
18  tcrn.ch (bitly.Pro) 99.88 54 minuten
19  su.pr 99.76 1 uur, 47 minuten
20  t.co 99.71 2 uur, 9 minuten
21  snurl.com 98.11 14 uur, 4 minuten
22  digg.com 37.71 19 dagen, 7 uur, 26 minuten
23  to. 0.00 31 dagen, 0 uur, 0 minuten
23  tr.im 0.00 31 dagen, 0 uur, 0 minuten
23  twurl.cc 0.00 31 dagen, 0 uur, 0 minuten

NOTE: The Twitter URL shortener t.co is blocked from China, which caused some downtime as measured from our monitoring stations (two consecutive errors from two different locations in China is regarded as downtime). If the errors from the China locations are excluded the uptime for t.co is 100%.

 

PERFORMANCE

The performance (page load speed) was measured for the most popular URL Shorteners and the results are displayed in the graphs below.

Note that the chart on the left is without the resolve time (time to lookup the IP address for the specific host name), and the second chart includes the resolve time. As you can see the resolve time can be a very significant part of the total loading time, which is mostly caused by the use of uncommon TLDs like ".gd". Altough not an issue for most users, as these popular URL shorteners are often cached by the ISP, this is an issue for people that are connected to the internet through for example a company network with a private DNS.

 

PERFORMANCE
PERFORMANCE

 

Site Performance Index

PR_REPORT_SPI_INTRO

Site Performance Index

 

METHODOLOGY

WatchMouse monitored the availability (uptime) and performance (page load speed) of the most popular URL Shorteners from februari 24 through maart 28, 2011.

 

Beschikbaarheid

METHODOLOGY_TXT

 

PERFORMANCE

METHODOLOGY_PERFORMANCE


  • Resolve time: LEGENDA_RESOLVETIME
  • Connect time: LEGENDA_CONNECTTIME
  • Processing time: LEGENDA_PROCESSINGTIME
  • Download time: LEGENDA_DOWNLOADTIME
  • Totale tijd: LEGENDA_TOTALTIME

 

Site Performance Index

SPI_DEFINITION

RESEARCH_COVERS BudURL, fb.me, goo.gl, amzn.to, binged.it (bitly.Pro), bit.ly, is.gd, lnkd.in, ow.ly, j.mp, mcaf.ee, lnk.ms, youtu.be, y.ahoo.it, wp.me, fwd4.me, tinyurl.com, tcrn.ch (bitly.Pro), su.pr, t.co, snurl.com, digg.com, to., tr.im, twurl.cc.

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