Posted April 3rd, 2007 by Scott
Years ago, it used to be okay to put up your website with a few pages that said “coming soon”. The truly tacky amongst us supplemented this with animated construction men (myself included!).
These days you can’t get away with such a sloppy effort and still expect people to take you seriously. If you want to know how closely people are watching your Internet efforts, consider that the major websites are now having their “uptime” tracked.
Pingdom shows us the results of the top 20 websites for 2007.

In years gone by your call centre may have gone off line for a few hours, but at least the vast majority of people never knew about it. Now, you take your website off line for even a minute and everybody knows.
It’s a raising of standards, which can only be a good thing.