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Pingdom Lists Reasons To Monitor Your Website

Many websites owners more or less assume their sites will always work.  And there's really no reason for the uninitiated to believe otherwise, since there aren't any obvious moving parts poised to fail.  But of course, sites can experience problems, and there are many reasons why small business owners should monitor them.

Ages Of Social Networks' Users Analyzed

It's common sense that a small business specializing in wheelchair accessories shouldn't advertise outside the average daycare center.  However, it may be less obvious whether that business would be best off establishing a presence on Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter, and that's where new stats from Pingdom can help.

Pingdom Weighs In On PageRank's Uselessness

It might be worth a bit in terms of bragging rights for a small business owner to be able to say his or her site has a PageRank of 10.  It's probably not worth much more than that, however, as new data from Pingdom proves.Pingdom researched the PageRank of the top 100 sites in the U.S.  These are sites that almost always show at the top of search results within their industry, in other words, and receive all sorts of traffic as a result.  Pingdom's key finding: "The average PR among the top 100 sites is 7.5."