Monitis Inc., a leading provider of global website and network monitoring services, offers 50% discount for its premium service Basic and Plus yearly plans. Offer is valid till 7th of January, 2008. Websites availability becomes critically important to online shops during Christmas sales season, when any minute of downtime may result in significant loss of revenues.
According to Mon.itor.Us benchmarks research websites under “Gifts” or “Christmas shopping”, “Top hotels”, “Restaurants” categories, throughout peak season demonstrated substantial downtime and poor user experience. For example, www.restaurants.co.uk that provides list of UK famous restaurants had been down almost 50% last week of November 2007. The same week www.visitbritain.us had performance problems showing only 71% uptime, and www.zonefreshdelivery.com being off for 51 hours.
www.opodo.co.uk was not down, but showed slow average loading time, over 4 seconds.