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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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