ADVISORY/Presidential Candidates' Web Site Performance to be Measured by Keynote; Call Press Hotline at 650/522-1234 to Get Results.

Business Editors/Government & High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (March 7)

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Note to press and analysts: Call Keynote's (Nasdaq:KEYN) media and analyst-relations hotline at 650/522-1234 to request more information or an interview. To be added to Keynote's press-release distribution list, send an email to [e-mail] and specify media affiliation.

What: Keynote's Presidential Campaign Web Performance Report

The U.S. presidential candidates are stumping the campaign trail in the physical world, but how are they performing in the virtual world on the Internet? Keynote will provide quantitative and comparative measurements of the performance and availability to the public of the web sites of the leading presidential candidates.

All the candidates are using the World Wide Web as never before as a strategic campaign medium to rally voters, raise funds and promote their platforms. How attentive are they to making sure their constituents can access these web sites quickly and reliably throughout the campaign?

When: Keynote will measure the performance of the Presidential candidates' web sites through the election in November 2000 and will report on the results following major political events, as follows:

--   March 7: Super Tuesday No. 1
--   March 14: Super Tuesday No. 2
--   July 29-Aug. 4: Republican Convention
--   Aug. 14-17: Democratic Convention
--   Nov. 7: Election

Keynote can also provide results at any time upon request to working press. To receive an automatic email summary of Keynote's Presidential Campaign Web Performance results, send an email request to [e-mail] and specify media affiliation.

How: Keynote will measure the performance and availability of the official web sites of the Presidential candidates every 15 minutes around the clock through November 2000 from 66 Internet access points in 25 metropolitan areas in the United States, a subset of Keynote's global network of measurement computers in over 120 locations around the world.

The measured web sites include the following:

Official Web Sites of Presidential Candidates
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Al Gore  -- www.algore2000.com
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Bill Bradley  -- www.billbradley.com
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George W. Bush  -- www.georgewbush.com
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Alan Keyes  -- www.keyes2000.org
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John McCain  -- www.mccain2000.com
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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, CA 94403, telephone [phone], fax [phone], [e-mail].

Note to Editors: To request further information or an interview, press and analysts should call the Keynote Press/Analyst Message Hotline at 650/522-1234.

Keynote, Perspective, Consumer Perspective, MyKeynote, Lifeline and The Internet Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.