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Gateway Replaces Digital Equipment on the Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1998--Keynote Systems, the recognized authority on Internet performance, today announced a change to the set of companies that comprise the Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index, which has become accepted as a standard indicator of the overall health and performance of the Internet.
Gateway (NYSE:GTW) replaces Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) on the Index because of DEC's recent acquisition by Compaq Computer Corp. (NYSE:CPQ). This is only the second change to the composition of the Index since its inception in 1996.
Gateway, located in North Sioux City, S.D., joins 15 other leading high-technology companies on the Index and was selected in part because of its large volume of e-commerce transactions conducted with business customers from its web site which runs Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) IIS/3.0 server software and connects to the Internet via Verio (NASDAQ:VRIO).
The Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index provides a standard indication of overall Internet health and performance and also serves as a benchmark against which companies can compare the performance of their own World Wide Web sites.
Information from the Index is published regularly in print and on the Web by The Wall Street Journal (NYSE:DJ), by IDG publications InfoWorld, Computerworld and The Industry Standard, and by Keynote Systems on its own web site.
Keynote also offers a free one-week comparative performance appraisal against the Index with its Keynote Perspective service to any company that develops or operates a business-critical web site with a registered domain name and submits an application online at keynote.com.
"The quality of service 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 pleased to provide a public service each week by using a subset of these measurements to gauge and chart the overall health of the Internet."
Keynote's corporate customers use the company's Perspective service to track and manage the performance of their business-critical web sites, including Web-page download times, connection failures and backbone performance comparisons, in order to optimize the Quality of Service they offer their online customers.
About the Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index
The Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index reflects overall Internet performance by measuring the average response time experienced from 42 locations in major metropolitan areas around the United States while accessing standard web content from a mix of 40 important business World Wide Web sites during the peak business hours of 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. This produces more than 40,000 measurements per business day and over 200,000 per business week.
The 40 selected sites on the Index include popular Internet search engines and other web sites in the categories of publishing, business services, financial services, high technology and communications.
The Index shows at-a-glance the weekly performance average for all 40 sites combined, the performance of the top five best-performing web sites, and the best and worst cities in the U.S. from which to surf the World Wide Web. The Index also indicates whether overall Internet performance is improving or deteriorating by providing a comparison with the previous week's performance and includes an historical graph that shows the ups and downs of weekly performance averages for the past year.
The Index comparisons show the effect on overall Internet performance of factors such as holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc.), unusual events (such as the Mars-probe landing and Microsoft's release of Internet Explorer 4.0 for free downloads), and construction accidents (such as a backhoe slicing through crucial fiber-optic cables). Keynote maintains and publishes an updated graph of week-to-week Internet performance for the previous 13 months on its own web site at keynote.com . -0- *T The 40 Web Sites on the Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index
The Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index comprises performance measurements for 40 public web sites in six categories:
Publishing
CNET (NASDAQ:CNWK) CNNfn -- a subsidiary of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) InfoWorld Electric -- an IDG company New York Times (NYSE:NYT) TechWeb - a service of CMP Media (NASDAQ:CMPX) The Wall Street Journal (NYSE:DJ) USA Today -- a division of Gannett Co. Inc. (NYSE:GCI) ZDNet -- a service of Ziff-Davis (NYSE:ZD)
Search Engines and Directories
AltaVista -- a service of Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ) Excite (NASDAQ:XCIT) InfoSeek (NASDAQ:SEEK) Lycos (NASDAQ:LCOS) Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO)
Business Services
Dilbert (United Media) (NASDAQ:UNEWY) Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB) Federal Express (NYSE:FDX) United Parcel Service
Financial Services
Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCH) Fidelity Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER)
High Technology
3Com (NASDAQ:COMS) Apple Computer (NASDAQ:AAPL) Bay Networks (NYSE:BAY) Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) Compaq (NYSE:CPQ) Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) Gateway (NYSE:GTW) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HWP) IBM (NYSE:IBM) Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) Lotus -- a division of IBM (NYSE:IBM) Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP) Novell (NASDAQ:NOVL) Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:SUNW)
Communications
AT&T (NYSE:T) MCI (NASDAQ:MCIC) Sprint (NYSE:FON) UUNET -- subsidiary of WorldCom (NASDAQ:WCOM)
*T -0- How the Keynote Business 40 Internet Performance Index is Calculated
To gather data for the Index, Keynote Systems uses its Keynote Perspective service to measure how long it takes to access and download web pages via industry-standard HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), the same protocol used by the Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Netscape (NASDAQ:NSCP) web browsers, every 15 minutes around the clock from each of the 40 web sites included in the Index.
Although Keynote has 52 measurement locations around the world, the published Index is calculated only from the measurements taken between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, by the 42 software measurement agents located in 27 major metropolitan areas around the United States. This produces over 200,000 discrete performance measurements each week for the published Index.
As a public service, Keynote also measures and discloses for public scrutiny the performance of a popular Web Site of the Week (which changes each week) and of the famous web site of the U.S. White House.
About Keynote Systems
Keynote Systems is the world's leading supplier of Internet performance data and diagnostic services to corporations with business-critical web sites. The company markets Keynote Perspective, a global real-time service that measures, compares and assures the Quality of Service of corporate Internet sites around the world.
The foundation of the service is an extensive network of customizable software measurement agents connected to the major Internet backbones in dozens of metropolitan areas worldwide plus a sophisticated operations center for collecting and disseminating Internet performance data.
Keynote customers include some of the world's busiest and most successful corporate Internet web sites and web-hosting companies -- including American Express (NYSE:AXP), Compaq Computer (NYSE:CPQ), DIGEX (NASDAQ:ICIX), DoubleClick (NASDAQ:DCLK), Exodus Communications (NASDAQ:EXDS), IBM Corp. (NYSE:IBM), N2K Inc. (NASDAQ:NTKI), National Semiconductor (NYSE:NSM), and The SABRE Group (NYSE:TSG) -- which use the service to improve customer satisfaction and ensure competitiveness.
For further information about Keynote Perspective, or to schedule a free one-week performance appraisal of a web site, visit Keynote's web site at 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.
Note to Editors: Keynote, Perspective, and The Internet Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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