September 08, 1999 09:16
Keynote Announces Its Sites-of-the-Week for September: Four E-Commerce Web Sites Selected for Public Internet Performance Tests
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 8, 1999--
Companies With E-Commerce Web Sites Invited to Compare
Their Quality of Service to These Benchmark Sites
Keynote, the largest provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services, today announced that it will measure the quality of service of the web sites of Mortgage.com (Nasdaq:MDCM), Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT), PageNet (Nasdaq:PAGE), and Quotesmith.com (Nasdaq:QUOT) in September 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 at web.keynote.com.
Companies with e-commerce web sites signing up for Keynote's free performance appraisal at keynote.com can also compare the performance and availability of their own sites to the Site-of-the-Week.
Anyone with a web browser can view the performance measurements and availability rates of the Site-of-the-Week in real time for the current week 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 at keynote.com.
The four Sites-of-the-Week for September are popular e-commerce sites that offer goods or services to consumers or businesses over the Internet. Mortgage.com is a provider of online mortgage services. Red Hat is a developer and provider of open source software and services, including the Red Hat Linux operating system. PageNet is a provider of paging and wireless messaging services. Quotesmith.com is an Internet-based insurance service for consumers and businesses.
Week: September 6
Company: Mortgage.com (Nasdaq:MDCM)
Internet Address: mortgage.com
Web-Site Software: Microsoft IIS/4.0 (Nasdaq:MSFT)
Internet Access: MCI WorldCom/UUNET (NASDAQ:WCOM)
Week: September 13
Company: Red Hat (Nasdaq:RHAT)
Internet Address: redhat.com
Web-Site Software: Red Hat Secure/2.0
Internet Access: MCI WorldCom/UUNET (NASDAQ:WCOM)
Week: September 20
Company: PageNet (Nasdaq:PAGE)
Internet Address: pagenet.com
Web-Site Software: Microsoft IIS/4.0 (Nasdaq:MSFT)
Internet Access: MCI WorldCom (NASDAQ:WCOM)
Week: September 27
Company: Quotesmith (Nasdaq:QUOT)
Internet Address: quotesmith.com
Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 (NYSE:AOL)
Internet Access: AboveNet (NASDAQ:ABOV)
"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 Books-A-Million (Nasdaq:BAMM), Telebank (Nasdaq:TBFC), MP3.com (Nasdaq:MPPP), China.com (Nasdaq:CHINA), Ultima Online, a unit of Electronic Arts (Nasdaq:ERTS), E-LOAN (Nasdaq:EELN), Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq:ASKJ), Office Depot (NYSE:ODP), Drugstore.com (Nasdaq:DSCM), Staples (Nasdaq:SPLS), uBid (Nasdaq:UBID), Discover Brokerage (NYSE:MWD) and Sears (NYSE:S).
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 (Nasdaq:MSFT) and Netscape (NYSE:AOL) web browsers. The measurements are performed every 15 minutes around the clock from each of Keynote's 88 automated measurement locations around the world which are connected to the Internet via T-1 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 keynote.com.
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 (Nasdaq:COMS), Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCH), CNET (Nasdaq:CNET), Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP), IBM (NYSE:IBM), InfoSeek (Nasdaq:SEEK), Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS), Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER), Novell (Nasdaq:NOVL), Oracle (Nasdaq:ORCL), Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq:SUNW), Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) and 27 other companies.
About Keynote
Keynote is the largest provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to companies that operate e-commerce web sites. The company markets Keynote 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 12 million performance measurements daily using Keynote's global infrastructure of over 220 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones in over 50 statistically selected metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynoteis sophisticated operations center and are instantly available to customers through any web browser.
Keynote customers include over 400 leading e-commerce web sites and hosting companies including AdForce (Nasdaq:ADFC), Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), CDNow (Nasdaq:CDNW), Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ), Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO), Dell Computer (Nasdaq:DELL), Digex (Nasdaq:DIGX), DoubleClick (Nasdaq:DCLK), Exodus Communications (Nasdaq:EXDS), Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM), and The SABRE Group (NYSE:TSG).
For further information about Keynote, visit the Keynote web site at keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems, Inc., 2855 Campus Drive, San Mateo, California 94403, telephone 650/522-1000, fax 650/522-1099, email info@keynote.com.
Keynote, Perspective, Lifeline, AccuStat and The Internet Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Keynote
Dan Berkowitz, 650/522-1168
dberkowitz@keynote.com
or
Lindsay PR
Mary Lindsay, 408/984-7242
mlindsay@sjm.infi.net
or
Eastwick Communications
Tracy Beaufort, 650/480-4024
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