The UK internet report is a website that monitor the health of the internet in the UK. It does this by checking the delay (ping) and loss of data (packet loss) to many of the UK points.
With this data you can see how busy servers are and view graphs of the history. Any problems are tweeted and people can follow the status.
The site also monitors the top sites visited in the UK and checks if the site is online and records the downtime.
This site is viewed by a lot of people. It also gets visitor peaks at times when the network is not preforming very well showing that the site is widely used.
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