Once a dotcom passes into the great beyond, it is remembered with a virtual tombstone, complete with birthdate and the day it died. Each dotcom tombstone contains a memorable blurb from a company representative. But before you enter, please remember to take off your hats out of respect for the dead. The Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of data around the world. It then displays a value between zero and 100.
Higher values indicate faster and more reliable connections.
Various servers around the world test via ping simultaneously. Each test server then compares the current response time to past responses from the same test to determine if the response was bad or good. The scores from all test servers are averaged together into a single index. For years military agencies have used satellites to keep tabs on, well, all sorts of things. Commercial agencies are now in on this business, launching their own satellites into space.