Report: Live Spaces Has Most Downtime

By Nathan Weinberg - Thu, 11/29/2007 - 12:30pm.

Pingdom tracked 12 top social networking sites from October 19 to November 19, and found that Microsoft’s Live Spaces had the most downtime, with the site failing to respond for a total of three hours over the course of the month.

By contrast, that’s more than Facebook (10 minutes), MySpace (10), Bebo (30), LiveJournal (40) and Orkut (85) combined, and worst on the list.

Number one was Yahoo 360, but that service was so unpopular it’s being closed, so I suspect the zero minutes of downtime can be attributed to zero server load.

Downtime for social network home pages Oct 19 - Nov 19, 2007


Social Network	Home page	Downtime
Yahoo! 360	360.yahoo.com	0m
Facebook	www.facebook.com	10m
MySpace	www.myspace.com	10m
Bebo	www.bebo.com	30m
Last.fm	www.last.fm	35m
LiveJournal	www.livejournal.com	40m
Reunion.com	www.reunion.com	1h 10m
Orkut	www.orkut.com	1h 25m
Classmates.com	www.classmates.com	1h 40m
Friendster	www.friendster.com	1h 50m
Xanga	www.xanga.com	2h 10m
Windows Live Spaces	spaces.live.com	3h 0m