Keynote Announces Its Sites-of-the-Week for June: Four E-Commerce Web Sites Selected for Public Internet Performance Tests
5 June 2000
Keynote Announces Its Sites-of-the-Week for June: Four E-Commerce Web Sites Selected for Public Internet Performance Tests
SAN MATEO, Calif.--June 5, 2000--Their Quality of Service to These Benchmark Sites
Keynote , the Internet performance authority(R), today announced that it will measure the quality of service of the Web sites of VeriSign , Ventro , Veritas Software and Volkswagen of America in June as part of its ongoing Site-of-the-Week program and will make the results available free to the public on the World Wide Web.
Anyone with a Web browser can view the measurements of the speed and reliability of the Site-of-the-Week in real time for the current week at http://my.keynote.com and compare them to the industry-standard Keynote Business 40 Index.
Keynote will also publish weekly several comparative performance graphs for each Site-of-the-Week on its Web site. Companies with e-commerce Web sites can also sign up for Keynote's free performance appraisal to compare the performance and availability of their own sites to the Site-of-the-Week.
The Four Sites-of-the-Week for June are popular e-commerce sites that offer goods or services to consumers or businesses over the Internet. VeriSign is the leading provider of Internet trust services including authentication, validation and payment. Ventro builds and operates companies that transform the supply chain in businesses around the world. Veritas is the leading provider of enterprise-class application storage management software. Volkswagen is a large manufacturer of popular automobiles.
Week: June 5 Company: VeriSign, Inc. Internet Address: http://www.verisign.com Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1G on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: WorldCom/UUNET and Cable & Wireless at Mountain View, CA
Week: June 12 Company: Ventro Corporation Internet Address: http://www.ventro.com Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: Exodus at Santa Clara, CA
Week: June 19 Company: Veritas Software Internet Address: http://www.veritas.com Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: Global Crossing/GlobalCenter at Sunnyvale, CA
Week: June 26 Company: Volkswagen of America Internet Address: http://www.vw.com Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP1 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: WorldCom/UUNET at Auburn Hills, MI
"The quality of service of popular Internet Web sites varies over time and users' geography," said Umang Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Keynote. "In conjunction with our subscription service that delivers comparative Internet performance and availability data to our corporate customers, we're pleased to provide a public service each week by highlighting a popular Web site and allowing anyone to compare its quality of service to an industry-standard benchmark."
Recent Sites-of-the-Week, whose performance graphs from those weeks have been published on Keynote's Web site, include the Web sites of AT&T Wireless Group , mySimon (a unit of CNET Networks ), Circuit City Stores , Fortune (a unit of Time Warner ), WeddingChannel.com, Sprint PCS , TurboTax (a division of Intuit ), Sales.com (a unit of Siebel Systems ), LookSmart , Onvia.com , Palm, Inc., Liquid Audio , and VA Linux Systems .
How Keynote Measures Quality of Service
To determine quality of service for its Site-of-the-Week, Keynote uses its Keynote Perspective(TM) service to measure how long it takes to access and download Web pages and their components via industry-standard HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) or secure HTTPS, the same protocols used by the Microsoft and Netscape Web browsers. The measurements are performed every 15 minutes around the clock from each of Keynote's automated measurement locations around the world, which are connected to the Internet via T-1 or T-3 communication lines. Performance results and availability rates for the Site-of-the-Week and for the Keynote Business 40 Index are available on the Internet in real time to anyone with a Web browser.
Keynote also offers a free one-week comparative Web-site performance appraisal against the Site-of-the-Week and the Keynote Business 40 Index, with its Keynote Perspective service, to any company that develops or operates a business Web site with a registered domain name and submits an application online at http://www.keynote.com/newsfpa.html.
The Keynote Business 40 Index is an industry-standard metric and benchmark of the overall health and performance of the Internet that is published weekly in The Industry Standard and other leading business and trade publications. The Index comprises 40 important Web sites in six categories of publishing, search engines and directories, business services, financial services, high technology and communications. The Index provides historical and real-time performance measurements for the Web sites of 3Com , Charles Schwab , CNET , Excite@Home , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , InfoSeek/Go , Lycos , Merrill Lynch , Novell , Oracle , Sun Microsystems , Yahoo and 27 other companies.
About Keynote
Keynote is the largest provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic, load testing and consulting services to companies that operate e-commerce Web sites. The company markets Keynote Perspective(TM), Transaction Perspective(TM), Consumer Perspective (TM) and Keynote Lifeline(TM), global real-time services that measure, assure and improve the quality of service of e-commerce Web sites around the world. The company captures over 24 million performance measurements daily using Keynote's global infrastructure of nearly 500 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones from over 120 statistically selected Internet access locations representing 50 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynote's sophisticated operations center and are instantly available to customers through any Web browser. Keynote customers include over 1000 leading e-commerce Web sites and hosting companies including AdForce , Akamai , Amazon.com , Blockbuster , Compaq Computer , Cisco Systems , Dell Computer , Digital Island , Digex , DoubleClick , Global Center , Microsoft , National Semiconductor , Pets.com , SABRE Holdings , UPS and WorldCom/UUNET .
Keynote is a member of the nationally-known Stanford University Statistics Department's Industrial Affiliates Program. Keynote works with Stanford statistics experts within the program to help define its methodology for measuring Web site performance and ensure the accuracy of its data.
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