News Media Web Sites Vary Dramatically in Speed and
Reliability, Reports Keynote
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 2004--Keynote Systems
(Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority(R), broadened its
index coverage today with the announcement of the world's first
news media Web transaction index. Named "The Keynote News Media Web
Transaction Performance Index," this new index tracks the
transaction speed and reliability of 19 leading news media Web
sites.
-- Keynote Expands Index Coverage with the Launch of the World's
First News Media Web Transaction Performance Index
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In speed and availability, Keynote reported that retail sites averaged 2.11 seconds to download the home page and were available 98.5% of the time.
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news and information, Keynote's new index will be a valuable
resource for both the news media and consumers. The news media
industry can use the index as a reliable way to compare themselves
to competitors and to improve their own online performance, while
consumers can use the index as a way to decide which sites deliver
news the most efficiently.
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Credit Public Service Union In its inaugural week, Keynote's News Media Index showed a wide
range of variation in the speed and reliability of the sites
measured. The index measures the complete end-to-end process of
going to a news site, selecting a particular news-related category,
searching for and selecting an article.
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Card Credit Processing Service The overall average speed for completing this transaction was
8.14 seconds. While the top site for performance, CBSNews.com,
delivered the entire experience in less than 5.0 seconds, the
slowest site, ChicagoTribune.com, averaged over 14.0 seconds.
During the week, a few sites took as long as 25.8 seconds, but most
measurements fell between 4.0 and 18.0 seconds.
Center Credit Service Union The transaction reliability of the measured sites also varied
greatly. While the index average for reliability was a not so
terrific 97.12%, the difference between the most reliable and least
reliable sites was a significant 6.4% (99.91% for CNN.com vs.
93.51% for WashingtonPost.com). Reliability measurements also
showed a greater degree of variation by site and by time. This
somewhat erratic behavior indicates that the time of day is likely
to have a significant impact on a user's chance of enjoying a
smooth and successful completion of their desired task.
Card Credit Service Wireless "While the timeliness of news sites continues to improve every
year, some sites now deliver consistently reliable and high levels
of performance, while others are still struggling to reconcile the
conflicting demands of timeliness and responsiveness," said Roopak
Patel, senior Internet analyst in Keynote's public services
division. "Given the competitive nature of news sites, there is
little to keep the allegiance of users. If someone is looking for a
particular news item, switching to another site is a
natural response when their first
choice takes too long to download."
Credit Security Service Union Recent research suggests that millions of Americans receiving
their news online are affected by the variable site performance
shown on the index. In June 2004, Harris Interactive found that
fully 80% of U.S. adults now use the Internet to obtain news
online. The same study found that 50% of Americans turn to the Web
sites of leading newspapers for news, while 37% turn to the Web
sites run by television networks. Finally, underscoring the
dramatic reliance by executives on news-oriented Web sites, the
results of a similar survey conducted by Harris Interactive for The
Wall Street Journal and released in May 2004 found that 84% of
executives read news online "often" or "sometimes." Fully 25% of
executives said Internet news sites are now their most important
sources for news, only 4% below their ranking of national
newspapers at 29%.
Credit Report Service The Keynote News Media Web Transaction Performance Index is the
first of its kind to systematically measure the speed and
reliability of leading news media Web sites for performing common
multi-step tasks. To measure this particular index, Keynote's
measurement computers in 10 cities around the U.S. "click through"
the same steps an actual person might perform: entering the
particular URL of the news site they wish to visit, clicking on a
specific news sub-topic (such as local news, world news or
politics), logging in using
account information where
necessary and selecting on a particular news item.
Blogspot Com Christian The 19 Web sites that comprise the News Media Web Transaction
Index include the following: abcnews.com (NYSE:DIS), bbc.com,
boston.com (NYSE:NYT), cbsnews.com (NYSE:VIA), chicagotribune.com
(NYSE:TRB), cnbc.com, cnn.com (NYSE:TWX), csmonitor.com,
foxnews.com (NYSE:NWS), nbc.com (NYSE:GE), latimes.com (NYSE:TRB),
mercurynews.com (NYSE:KRI), msnbc.com, nytimes.com (NYSE:NYT),
sfgate.com, sky.com (NZSX:SKY), usatoday.com (NYSE:GCI),
washingtonpost.com (NYSE:WPO), wsj.com (NYSE:DJ).
Christian Counseling Credit The Keynote News Media Web Transaction Performance Index will be
published weekly on Keynote's Web site.
Credit Federal Service Union Keynote has historically seen an improvement in overall
performance results, over time, whenever it has launched a new
vertical-based Web transaction performance index; in this case the
online news media industry. The goal of the index is to help the
news media industry measure and manage the performance of its Web
sites and optimize the experience of people seeking news
online.
Credit Monitoring Service The Keynote News Media Transaction Performance Index is designed
to reflect the speed and reliability of the most well known news
media Web sites with a large online presence. Going beyond home
page performance, the news media transaction index provides deep
insight into the performance of these high traffic news media Web
sites.
Credit Division Service Here is the summary data for the first week's worth of results
from Keynote's News Media Web Transaction Performance Index --
Card Credit Online Service KEYNOTE NEWS MEDIA WEB TRANSACTION PERFORMANCE INDEX
Week of June 14, 2004, Measurements performed 8:00 AM to
midnight
eastern time
TRANSACTION SPEED TRANSACTION RELIABILITY (in seconds) (in percent) Site Site Rank Speed Rank Reliability 1 CBSNews.com 4.67 1 CNN.com 99.91 2 CNBC.com 4.77 2 CNBC.com 99.64 3 BBC.com 5.81 3 NBC.com 99.02 4 Mercurynews.com 5.83 4 BBC.com 98.31 5 SFgate.com 6.05 5 CSMonitor.com 98.22 6 NBC.com 7.20 6 Mercurynews.com 97.93 7 CNN.com 7.47 7 SFgate.com 97.88 NEWS INDEX 8.14 8 USAToday.com 97.74 8 Boston.com 8.28 NEWS INDEX 97.12 9 NYTimes.com 8.40 9 Sky.com 96.88 10 USAToday.com 8.45 10 Boston.com 96.73 11 CSMonitor.com 9.82 11 NYTimes.com 96.57 12 WashingtonPost.com 9.97 12 CBSNews.com 96.17 13 SKY.com 12.26 13 FoxNews.com 96.04 14 FoxNews.com 14.09 14 ChicagoTribune.com 94.08 15 ChicagoTribune.com 14.19 15 WashingtonPost.com 93.51
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Card Credit Fleet Service Note: In any given week the aggregated data for all 19 news
media Web sites on the index may not appear in print due to
insufficient
collection of data points for one or more sites.
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Index
Credit Free Online Report Keynote pioneered the use of vertical indices and benchmarks for
Web application performance over five years ago. The data used to
produce the index for a given week is taken from actual online
transactions Keynote's automated measurement computers execute and
measure from 10 U.S. cities (Boston, San Francisco, Detroit,
Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Houston and Dallas) on an hourly basis Monday to Sunday from 8:00
a.m. to midnight (eastern time).
Credit Federal First Service Keynote transaction measurement computers are placed on the most
widely used, familiar and recognizable Internet backbone and
service providers in these cities including Uunet/Worldcom, Sprint,
AT&T and Qwest. Additionally, Keynote's global network of
measurement computers run standard Microsoft Internet Explorer
browsers on Windows/2000 to obtain the most accurate and
representative transaction performance data possible today.
Consumer Credit Service For the Keynote News Media Web Transaction Performance Index,
each of the measurements begin by launching the browser, selecting
the starting URL for the specific Web site, and then conducting the
following:
Center Credit Family Service -- Clicking on a specific news sub-topic (such as local news,
world news or politics)
Credit Reporting Service -- Logging in using account information where
necessary
Cca Credit Division Service -- Selecting on the first news item
returned
Credit Free Report Service Complete index data that includes not only the aggregated and
limited time-frame results as published here, but every data point
taken 24/7 along with page, network component, content and error
detail, is available from Keynote on a subscription basis for
$3,885.00 per month. An aggregate view of the data is available for
$895.00 per month.
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Indices
Credit Repair Report Service Keynote's Web transaction indices leverage Keynote's long
history and experience developing Internet performance indices.
Keynote launched the world's first Web performance indices that
assess page download performance (as opposed to transaction
performance), known as The Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance
Index (measurements over T1 and T3 connections) and The Keynote
Consumer 40 Internet Performance Index (measurements over dial-up
and broadband connections). Keynote also launched the world's first
transaction performance index, The Keynote Web Broker Trading
Index. All today are considered the 'gold standard' for Web
performance benchmarking.
Credit Legal Repair Service In addition to The Keynote News Media Web Transaction
Performance Index, Keynote's growing line of transaction indices
include: The Keynote Web Broker Trading Index, The Keynote
E-Banking Transaction Performance
Index, The Keynote E-Commerce Transaction Performance Index, The
Keynote Travel & Hospitality Web Transaction Performance Index
(includes leading airline, hotel and online travel agency Web
sites) and The Keynote E-Government Transaction Performance
Index.
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Customers can use Keynote's
growing line of industry-specific Web transaction indices to
assess Web transaction performance against internal benchmarks
and against competitors. Customers can then leverage Keynote's
additional monitoring, performance management, load, content and
usability testing services to improve the overall performance of
their e-business applications and infrastructure.
Ccs Credit Division Service To build and maintain its growing line of Web performance
indices, Keynote uses its unparalleled global infrastructure of
over 1,600 strategically and statistically located measurement,
testing and diagnostic computers representing Internet performance
from 50 metropolitan areas worldwide.
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Web performance indices can be found at:
www.keynote.com/downloads/whitepapers/webtxn-methodology052704.pdf.
1st Credit Service Union General information about Keynote's performance indices can be
found at
www.keynote.com/solutions/solutions_pm_performance_indices_tpl.html
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basis over 40 million Internet performance measurements, frequent
media citations quoting Keynote's Web performance data and analysis
and the company's growing range of market-leading Web performance
indices for vertical markets
(http://www.keynote.com/solutions/solutions_pi_index.html).
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