Author: Mark Kupfer

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Dotcom-Monitor News

Mobile Browsers and Manual Script Editing Now Available

Monitor Websites with Mobile Browser Scripts UserView Scripts now support over 40 different mobile device browsers including: This new feature emulates the individual browsers by changing the user agent, the screen size, the display resolution and pixel ratio, and a mobile pointer replaces the mouse icon with touch emulation. With

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Reddit Detected Down

Dotcom-Monitor has detected that Reddit.com has gone down on 3/10/2016 around 8:30 PM CST, returning a 503 error “all of our servers are busy right now”.  This seemed to be a complete outage from all locations around the US until approximately 9:05 PM CST.

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GLibC DNS Exploit in Unix/Linux Machines

A DNS related exploit of Unix and Linux based operating systems has been gaining attention lately. The vulnerability exploits a bug in the GNU C library commonly referred to as the GLibC, serves as the core C library for many flavors of Linux and Unix based operating systems. This library

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Network Solutions Name Servers Currently Experiencing DNS Resolution Issues

Dotcom-Monitor has detected that some customers of Network Solutions using name servers such as NS46.WORLDNIC.COM and NS53.WORLDNIC.COM are experiencing intermittent issues.  Occasionally resolution attempts to the servers return improper results by pointing multiple unrelated websites to 141.8.225.31.  To see if this affects your site you can look for this result using the free DNS trace on www.dotcom-tools.com

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Dotcom-Monitor News

Accessing Data Using the XML Feed

Did you know that you don’t have to log in to the Dotcom-Monitor website to access your monitoring data?  We have several options that allow you to interact with and consume your monitoring data in the format that best fits your needs.

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Page Load Speed

Is Your Website Mobile Friendly? The Mobile Speed Test

So why do you want to know if your website is mobile friendly? Most likely it is because you have heard about last year’s announcement from google over at google webmaster central. It turns out that Google has updated their algorithm to significantly increase the weight of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. That’s right, significantly! So, optimizing your site for mobile is the way of the future!

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Performance Tech Tips

Microsoft Internet Explorer End of Support

This is a big week for Microsoft end of support agreements.  As of January 12, 2016, older versions of Internet explorer are no longer supported. IE 11 is the only version to receive updates moving forward.  

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Performance Tech Tips

5 Things Your Boss Needs to Know About Your Website

You may think the answers are obvious, and the most obvious questions include: How many people are hitting our website? How many site visitors are converting? Is the blog drawing traffic? Which pages are receiving the most traffic? These are not necessarily the most important metrics about your website, and

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Website Uptime

Huge UltraDNS Outage takes down Netflix, Rackspace & Expedia!

  Can your Customers Reach Your Website? You may have been aware that a large DNS provider, Neustar UltraDNS experienced an extended outage on Thursday 10/16/2015 which caused many of the largest websites in the world to be unavailable for over an hour and a half. Recent large scale internet

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Web App Functionality

The End of Flash:  The RIA Revolution

(Don’t worry, we are talking about the interactive media technology by Adobe, not the superhero “The Flash” or “Flash Gordon”) Everyone has interacted with Flash on the internet in one form or other, from the dawn of Youtube videos to memories of arcade-like video games, or digital greetings cards with dancing

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