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1997 Internet Performance Wrap-Up -- How Well Did It Perform? Keynote Systems Shows All At keynote.com keynote.com . It shows that the worst weekly performance average of 46.29 seconds occurred in February and the best weekly average of 15.25 seconds, which was three times faster, occurred in April. During the week of Dec. 2, 1996, average performance was 41.31 seconds; during the corresponding week one year later in December, 1997, average performance had improved 33 percent to 27.75 seconds. The graph is updated weekly and published on Keynote's web site as an ongoing resource for anyone interested in a historical perspective on changing Internet performance and the overall health of the Internet. "Internet quality of service as experienced by users of popular web sites varies over time and users' geography," said Umang Gupta, Chairman and CEO of Keynote Systems. "As an offshoot of our subscription service in delivering comparative Internet performance data to our corporate customers, we're happy to provide a public service each week by using a subset of these measurements to gauge and chart the overall health of the Internet." The Internet slowed considerably -- but did not collapse, as some pundits had anticipated -- during two weeks in July when two separate construction accidents cut critical fiber-optic cablkeynote.com .keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems Inc., Two West Fifth Avenue, San Mateo, California 94402, telephone 650/524-3000, fax 650/524-3099, email info@keynote.com
