Study: Yesterday’s Facebook Outage Also Slowed Down Major Media And Retail Sites

It's a testament to how important Facebook has become in the web ecosystem that the social network's performance issues yesterday didn't just affect the site itself but also a wide variety of other sites as well. Performance monitoring company Compuware APM, which analyses the performance of thousands of top sites, just sent us some interesting data about how Facebook's problems yesterday correlated with significant slowdowns across major U.S. media and retail sites.

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