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Pingdom outlines how it ranked the shorteners: Since we used the Pingdom monitoring network, the continuous tests were spread out over 25 locations distributed over North America and Europe.

7 Fastest URL Shorteners Ranked By Pingdom (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2010

Av de uppmätta sociala nätverk som Pingdom valt att följa är det Twitter som är sämst – rejält sämst.

When It Comes to Social Networks, Uptime Doesn’t Matter 2009

Royal Pingdom – Swedish anti-piracy law, two weeks on: Traffic down and sales up, April 15, 2009

Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

Pingdom found that the average page load time for the URL shorteners varied slightly depending on the geographic region in which it was used (For example, Bit. ly's average page load overhead, or "the extra time a URL shortener adds when accessing a site," according to Pingdom, was between 100 and 200 ms in North America, but around 400 ms in Europe).

7 Fastest URL Shorteners Ranked By Pingdom (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2010

REST in peace, SOAP Royal Pingdom Looks like the tide of the web API protocol war (if there ever was one) has shifted firmly in REST's favor while SOAP has been forced back.

The Technology newsbucket: mobile non-trends, video calling?, iPhone app dev costs and more Charles Arthur 2010

“Right after the law came into force on April 1st, the Swedish national broadband traffic dropped dramatically from an average of 160 Gbit/s to about 100 Gbit/s,” they post on the Royal Pingdom, continuing »»»

Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

So, “at Pingdom we decided to examine the effects so far, looking at broadband traffic and online sales,” Dave and Peter told p2pnet.

Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

Asked by Pingdom about the future, Daniel Westman, a researcher in Law and Information Technology at Stockholm University says:

Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

Pingdom asked Sweden ` s biggest video on demand service, SF Anytime about their sales:

Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on 2009

Pingdom explains it was primarily concerned with the reliability and performance of shortened URLs.

7 Fastest URL Shorteners Ranked By Pingdom (PICTURES) The Huffington Post 2010