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*********TURBOSANTA + COMPAQ********* by: go_with_throttle_up (52/M/Houston, Texas) 11/30/1999 8:45 pm EST Msg: 119870 of 119871 BOULDER, Colo., Nov 30, 1999 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In an effort to guide consumers to the fastest, most reliable Web sites, Service Metrics(SM), Inc., an Exodus Communications(TM), Inc. (Nasdaq: EXDS) company and a leader in Web site measurement applications and services, today announced the first holiday performance results from TurboSanta, located at www.servicemetrics.com/TurboSanta. Service Metrics TurboSanta, the most comprehensive e-tailing performance measurement report for the holiday season, found that of the top 120 retail Web sites, more than 15 percent violated the "eight-second rule" which states that users are likely to leave sites that take more than eight seconds to download. Performance of sites in the TurboSanta index ranged from half a second to over 20 seconds for the home page to download. Availability ratings, which refer to the percentage of time the site is accessible to end users, ranged from as high as 100 percent to only 74 percent.
Seven of the 120 sites measured scored a perfect 100 percent availability, proving to be among the Web's most reliable sites. Those sites are Barnesandnoble.com, CompUSA.com(SM), Compaq.com, ABCDistributing.com, BHPhotoVideo.com(TM), X10.com and InTheSwim.com. Top Ten Performance Scores
Web Site Performance (download times in seconds) CompUSA.com 0.55 FAOSchwarz.com 0.65 JCWhitney.com 0.92 Yahoo.com 1.09 Spiegel.com 1.31 DrsFosterSmith.com 1.33 TigerDirect.com 1.36 Shopper.com 1.43 Compaq.com 1.45 Dell.com 1.59
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