[168416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google causes 40% drop in traffic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Jan 24 18:08:26 2014
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 18:07:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Howard" <scott@doc.net.au>
> A non-trivial percentage of the Internet is in some way or other dependent
> on things like Google Analytics/maps/etc, Facebook likes, Twitter recent
> tweets, etc, such that if any of those services are not available the site
> fails to load, either correctly or sometimes at all. The same is true in
> many causes for javascript/etc libraries being loaded from 3rd party sites
> like Google.
I wonder what percentage of large website operators whose site designs
have such external dependencies have had it occur to them to include those
external services in their monitoring systems?
Cheers,
-- jra
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