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The Biggest Web Outages Of 2011: Bank of America, Netflix, Reddit And More

Posted: 12/22/11 10:15 AM ET

We've all been there. You go to your browser, type the URL of the website of your choice, press "Enter" and, well, nothing.

Sometimes, it could be Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale. Other times, your bank's site or credit card company's site may be down and you might not be able to access important financial information.

SmartBear Software, a company that acquired the web application performance monitoring company AlertSite in April, has compiled a list of the four biggest web outages of the year that "likely had the biggest impact."

None of last year's offenders, which included Facebook, Tumblr, Visa, Groupon, Twitter, JCPenney and Mastercard, made this year's list. Furthermore, SmartBear Software notes that "there were fewer significant website outages this year than in 2010."

Click through to the slideshow to see the four biggest web outages of 2011. And be sure to share with us in the comments the most frustrating outages you experienced.

LOOK: The Biggest Web Outages of 2011, from SmartBear Software.

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It's been a tough year for Netflix.

If the Qwikster debacle and loss of 800,000 subscribers in the third quarter weren't enough, the site also experienced several high-profile outages.

When Netflix went down in March, Smartbear tested it 20 times in just an hour and a half. Unfortunately, Netflix.com only loaded two times.

The site was also down for some users in June and July.
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We've all been there. You go to your browser, type the URL of the website of your choice, press "Enter" and, well, nothing. Sometimes, it could be Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale. Other times, your b...
We've all been there. You go to your browser, type the URL of the website of your choice, press "Enter" and, well, nothing. Sometimes, it could be Twitter's dreaded Fail Whale. Other times, your b...
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speelingmistake
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03:34 PM on 12/31/2011
funnily enough Twitter has been down for me for about 4 hours now. -_- doesn't look like it will recover before I leave for New Year.
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Desolati0n
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08:21 AM on 12/23/2011
Xbox live was down a few times this year.
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JBS
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02:41 PM on 12/22/2011
Doesn't include local cable systems that crash frequently leaving subscribers with NO internet whatsoever. I wouldn't subscribe to cable internet except that where I live BellSouth/AT&T has a monopoly on POTS.
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Nick Biancamano
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01:57 PM on 12/22/2011
playstion network anyone?
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joecooool
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01:41 PM on 12/22/2011
Wow, I can't believe you left off the single largest internet fail of the century.

Play Station Network - with over 75 million registered users most of whom use the service daily - was down for almost two months after getting hacked.

How can you miss that? Seriously? That was bigger news and affected more people than all of the other things you mentioned combined.
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catwoman125mom
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01:12 PM on 12/22/2011
Here comes another one..
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