Yahoo Performance Issues Documented

Following up on the claims regarding Yahoo being down for many users yesterday, I found more evidence for Yahoo problems.

Netcraft graphs show significant performance problems for Yahoo yesterday.

Netcraft.com reported the following regarding the problems.

Yahoo's web sites experienced brief performance problems earlier today, with users in some areas experiencing more significant problems than others. Yahoo is one of the world's busiest web sites (currently the number two Web destination for users of the Netcraft toolbar), and thus the outages have been noted by the Internet Storm Center and news outlets. The yahoo.com home page was inaccessible for several hours from our London monitoring station and responded more slowly than usual from several locations in the U.S. Yahoo search appears to have experienced lengthier availability problems than the home page and other Yahoo services.

I haven't found any explanation from Yahoo regarding the performance problems. If I do read any official responses, I will post them here, but I wouldn't count on any coming soon.

As for other websites, reports of problematic issues have been posted, but seem to be slowing now. I think problems being reported now are the usual hiccups noticed by us all daily. I am still curious as to whether the problems were due to widespread distribution of new trojans, or unique occurances for those involved.

I'm keeping my firewalls and scans updated, just in case.

Digg, Yahoo and Others Experiencing Unusual Problems Today

More stories are surfacing regarding Yahoo problems, but there is still no official announcement from Yahoo as far as I know.

I am being informed that major problems are hitting quite a few major websites today.

Digg.com is having various problems and a buzz is definitely starting to form in comments and articles from Diggers. Diggers are claiming many timeout sessions, votes not updating properly, articles not uploading properly and various other annoyances.

CNN.com users have also complained about CNN not performing properly today. CNN has gone through a major upgrade regarding the website design, so these may just be associated with these tweaks.

I'm still waiting for more information regarding these problems, but they are starting to seem more related. Stories regarding trojan problems in Yahoo and MSN, on top of the claims of Digg, CNN, Flickr and other website users experiencing problems are definitely creating a stir today.

If anyone out there is experiencing problems atypical of your usual web surfing experiences, feel free to leave a comment and let us know.

I'm screening all comments, but I will check often and allow relevant replies to be posted.

Yahoo Down - Users Experiencing Yahoo Problems

While combing through the latest Google Trends, I noticed a few terms related to Yahoo down. A quick visit to Yahoo.com was successful, but there are many that have been complaining in various forums the past few hours.

It seems that some users are experiencing Yahoo problems with services such as Yahoo IM, Flickr, Yahoo news, Upcoming, and the main Yahoo home page. Reported Yahoo problems are ranging from severe lag to 12 hour outages of all services for some users. I haven't tried all of the services, but as I said, the home page is working fine for me.

User reports of Yahoo problems are indicating that servers in the U.S. are having major problems as well as major problems in China servers for over 12 hours. There is no official report from Yahoo regarding the reported problems yet.

Users are speculating about a virus that hit Yahoo and Hotmail mail services earlier, as well as even attempting to throw iPhone problems into the mix. These early responses are only the beginning of many hypotheses that are sure to surface over the next few hours and days.

I'm definitely keeping my eye on this and will try out a few other Yahoo services to see if I encounter any Yahoo problems.