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This paper presents the results of a reliability study on a set of nearly 100 popular Web sites done from an end user's perspective. The study attempts to address the following issues: (a) What is the (stationary) probability that a user's request to access a Web site succeeds? (b) On average, what percentage of Web sites remain accessible to the user at a given moment? (c) What are the major causes...