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Schools admissions website crashes

nccadmin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:21:17 GMT

A schools admissions website crashed on Tuesday, leaving 500,000 children still not knowing which school they are to attend in the autumn.

The 11-year-olds now face a few days' wait before they ...

Big Day Out website has big crash

nccadmin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:01:51 GMT

The Kent Big Day Out website has crashed just minutes after it opened because of huge demand.

Visit Kent, the organisers of the March 27 event, is giving away 18,000 tickets to ...

BBC website crashes under demand

nccadmin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:00 GMT

A BBC website hosting an online test crashed under the weight of traffic after viewers were invited to take part in an online test.

The BBC 2 programme, The Virtual Revolution, ...

Google email suspended in Iran

nccadmin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:15:00 GMT

It is thought that a permanent suspension of Google's email services in Iran is intended to boost local development of internet technology and build trust between its people and the government.

A ...

Interim profits up 19% and dividend up 17% with forward visibility remaining very strong

nccadmin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:01:22 GMT

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, "NCC Group" or "the Group", the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance Testing, has reported its interim reults for the six months to 30 November 2009....

Strong web site performance contributes to bumper Christmas for etailers

nccadmin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:36:39 GMT

UK etail web sites enjoyed strong availability and fast download speeds over the festive period, contributing significantly to Christmas sales growth in 2009, according to new figures from load testing and web ...

Computer Weekly - UK retail web sites performed well under Christmas pressure

nccadmin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:34:43 GMT

Web site monitoring company Site Confidence found that the average UK retail web site had 99.88% uptime across Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Web site average download time was 9.9 seconds. ...

Etail download speeds sluggish on Mega Monday, says research

nccadmin — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:28:57 GMT

Figures released today by web site monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence, an NCC Group plc company, revealed that consumers faced slow web site download speeds on Mega Monday – the ...

Internet Retailing - online retail sites are not preparing sites early enough for Christmas

nccadmin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:44 GMT

Research from web site monitoring and load testing specialist Site Confidence has found that online retailers fail to prepare for the Christmas shopping rush starting in November, despite it being the highest ...

The Retail Bulletin - E-retailers ho-ho-hopeless

nccadmin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:40:50 GMT

Research from web site monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence has discovered that e-retailers fail to prepare for the November Christmas shopping rush, despite it being the highest month for time ...

Some E-retailers ho-ho-hopeless in run-up to Christmas, says research

nccadmin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:58:39 GMT

Research from website monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence, an NCC Group plc company, has discovered that e-retailers fail to prepare for the November Christmas shopping rush, despite it being the ...

Digital broadcasters must retain viewer confidence, says England vs. Ukraine supplier

nccadmin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:29:13 GMT

NCC Group company, Site Confidence, supplier of load testing services to the site that broadcasted the England vs. Ukraine football match live on Saturday, has warned that the future success of live ...

Google suffers outage during routine maintenance

nccadmin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:09:13 GMT

In an outage described as a ‘big deal’ by Google, the company’s Gmail service crashed yesterday under heavy traffic as technicians attempted to upgrade a small fraction of its servers.

For 100 ...

Users frustrated by Twitter outage after DoS attack

nccadmin — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 11:57:00 GMT

Twitter crashed this afternoon following a denial of service (DoS) attack, leaving frustrated users unable to access the site.

Web site monitoring and load testing specialist, Site Confidence, an NCC Group company, which ...

BNP bottom of the pile in party politics web league

nccadmin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:34:00 GMT

The resurgent British National Party (BNP) had the worst website download speed of the UK’s political parties in July at 35.74 seconds, according to research by the UK’s leading website monitoring and ...