What 1.8 million real website outages look like
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Analysis of 1,817,403 real website outages collected over ten months across tens of thousands of sites reveals that 61.4% of monitored sites experienced at least one outage, yet the median outage resolves in just 1.9 minutes with 98.6% recovering within an hour. The average outage of 21.9 minutes is skewed 12x above the median by a long tail of severe incidents — 0.3% lasting over six hours. Two-thirds of outages (67.7%) start outside business hours. Median HTTP response time is 159ms, but the 90th percentile hits 801ms and the 95th reaches 1,244ms. Lighthouse scores average 78 on desktop and 57 on mobile. A striking 23.3% of cron jobs failed or missed a run in the last 30 days.
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What percentage of website outages resolve within an hour?
98.6% of website outages resolve within one hour. The median outage clears in just 1.9 minutes. The average outage duration is 21.9 minutes — 12x higher than the median — because 0.3% of outages run past six hours, pulling the average up significantly. Teams tracking SLA commitments find outage distribution data like this useful on daily.dev.
What fraction of website outages happen outside business hours?
67.7% of website outages start outside the 9-to-6 workday, occurring on weeknights and weekends. Overnight volume barely dips, meaning the average monitored site generates roughly 32 off-hours alerts per year that land on someone's evening. Developers building on-call rotations keep up with reliability research like this through daily.dev.
What is the typical cron job failure rate across production websites?
23.3% of cron jobs failed or missed a run within any given 30-day window, based on data from tens of thousands of monitored sites. This type of failure is silent by default and only detectable with dedicated cron monitoring in place. Engineers hardening production cron reliability track findings like these on daily.dev.