“The 2013 to 2015 Black Friday-Cyber Monday weekends saw a few lengthy site outages by big-name retailers. But 2016 has proven to be the year of mini outages and slowdowns, some of which are being resolved quickly; others more slowly,” Mehdi Daoudi, CEO and co-founder of digital performance analytics company Catchpoint Systems Inc., said Wednesday.
Consumer products retailer Amway Global (ranked No. 43 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide) on Monday showed intermittent “500 error” messages—a problem that first surfaced Nov. 23, according to Catchpoint. A 500 error is an internal server error that requires fixes to web server software.