'Father of the Internet' Gore Leads Bradley in Internet Performance Duel According to Keynote; Bush Leads Republican Candidates in Competition Among Official Web Sites.

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SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 3, 2000

The official web site of the Al Gore campaign beat the performance of the Bill Bradley site by 12 percent on New Hampshire Primary day according to more than 38,000 measurements conducted by Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN), the Internet performance authority. Meanwhile, the George W. Bush web site performed faster than the web sites of the other four Republican candidates. The Bush site was also fastest overall at 3.53 seconds average performance while the official Steve Forbes web site was the slowest of the seven sites at 14.56 seconds.

The following table shows the performance of the web sites of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates as measured by Keynote every 15 minutes on Tuesday, February 1 from 12:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. Pacific time from computers at 66 Internet access points in 25 large metropolitan areas around the United States. The table indicates the average time in seconds required to access and download the home page of each web site over a T-1 or T-3 Internet connection. Lower numbers are better and indicate faster performance. The table also shows the average size in kilobytes (thousands of bytes) of the site's home page including all of the graphics and photographs.

Official Web              Average             Size of Home Page
  Site                  Performance
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George W. Bush              3.53                   94 KB
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Gary Bauer                  4.03                   72 KB
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Al Gore                     4.42                  215 KB
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Bill Bradley                5.04                   82 KB
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John McCain                 5.28                   81 KB
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Alan Keyes                  5.40                   68 KB
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Steve Forbes               14.56                  172 KB
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According to public information sources, the official web sites of the presidential candidates run a variety of server software and connect to the Internet via different access providers.

Candidate: George W. Bush Internet Address: www.georgewbush.com Web-Site Software: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 (Nasdaq:MSFT) Internet Access or Hosting: Exodus Communications (Nasdaq:EXDS) in Austin, Texas

Candidate: Gary Bauer Internet Address: www.bauer2k.com Web-Site Software: Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Internet Access or Hosting: Atlantech in Silver Spring, Maryland

Candidate: Al Gore Internet Address: www.algore2000.com Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Linux (Nasdaq:RHAT) Internet Access or Hosting: Exodus Communications in Sterling, Virginia

Candidate: Bill Bradley Internet Address: www.billbradley.com Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Sun Solaris (Nasdaq:SUNW) Internet Access or Hosting: Shore.Net in Lynn, Massachusetts

Candidate: John McCain Internet Address: www.mccain2000.com Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/4.0 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: US West (NYSE:USW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Candidate: Alan Keyes Internet Address: www.keyes2000.org Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: SimpleNet (a unit of Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO)

in San Diego, California

Candidate: Steve Forbes Internet Address: www.forbes2000.com Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 on Sun Solaris Internet Access or Hosting: USinternetworking (Nasdaq:USIX) in Annapolis, Maryland

How Keynote Measured the Presidential Candidate Web Sites

Keynote used its Perspective(TM)service to measure the performance and availability of the official web sites of the presidential candidates every 15 minutes from computers at 66 Internet access points in 25 metropolitan locations around the United States which are a subset of Keynote's global network of measurement computers in over 120 locations around the world. Keynote will continue the measurements through November 2000 and periodically report the results as a public service.

How Keynote Measures Quality of Service

The Keynote Perspective(TM)service profiles the complete user experience of executing interactive multi-page transactions, such as buying merchandise or making a travel reservation, and downloading content, including graphics and banner ads, from World Wide Web sites to multiple locations around the world. The service supports industry-standard HTTP and secure HTTPS, the same protocols used by the Microsoft (Nasdq:MSFT) and Netscape (Nasdaq:AOL) web browsers. The measurements can be performed every 15 minutes around the clock from each of Keynote's automated measurement locations which are connected to the Internet via T-1 or T-3 communication lines. Performance results and availability rates for measured web sites, for a popular Site-of-the-Week and for the Keynote Business 40 Index are available in real time via MyKeynote(TM)software to anyone with a web browser. Keynote Perspective also provides daily quality-of-service summary reports by email as well as an alarm service that notifies subscribers by pager or email of outages or deteriorations in quality of service.

About Keynote

Keynote is the leading provider of Internet performance measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to companies that operate e-commerce web sites. The company markets Keynote Perspective(TM), Consumer 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 16 million performance measurements daily using Keynote's global infrastructure of more than 300 measurement computers connected to the major Internet backbones in over 120 statistically selected locations across 50 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet performance and availability data are collected at Keynote's sophisticated operations center and are instantly available to customers through any web browser.

Keynote customers include over 700 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 SABRE Holdings (NYSE:TSG).

For further information about Keynote, visit the Keynote web site at http://www.keynote.com or contact the company at Keynote Systems, Inc., 2855 Campus Drive, San Mateo, California 94403, telephone [phone], fax [phone], email [e-mail].

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