Check Keynote's List of Tips to Assure Your Web Site Can Bear the Holiday Load.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2001 New Keynote keynote /key·note/ (ke´not) in homeopathy, the characteristic property of a drug that indicates its use in treating a similar symptom of disease. LoadSuite(TM) also Announced; Cost-Effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. Testing Bundle Provides One Stop Shopping for Load Testing Load testing is the process of creating demand on a system or device and measuring its response. In mechanical systems it refers to the testing of a system to certify it under the appropriate regulations (LOLER in the UK - Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment The "Top 10 Tips for Load Testing your Web site for the Holidays" were announced today by Keynote Systems Keynote Systems, Inc. provides measurement and monitoring, service level and customer experience management services to customers to improve e-business performance by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability. (Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Performance Authority(R). Americans are expected to stay closer to home this holiday season resulting in an increase over last year in online holiday shopping. Businesses must be ready for the increase in traffic and load testing is the way to prepare in order to ensure that Web sites don't crumble crum·ble v. crum·bled, crum·bling, crum·bles v.tr. To break into small fragments or particles. v.intr. 1. To fall into small fragments or particles; disintegrate. under the stress. To help e-businesses assure a high quality experience for their customers during this season and beyond, Keynote also announced Keynote LoadSuite, a convenient and cost-effective service bundle that effectively packages together Keynote's two performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. services: KeyReadiness LoadPro(TM) and Test Perspective(TM). Here are "Keynote's Top 10 Tips for Load Testing your Web Site" for this online holiday shopping season and beyond: 1. Test early and test often -- Always plan ahead to make sure your site can handle major site launches, seasonal promotions and marketing initiatives. However, don't ignore day-to-day content changes and modifications to your Web site. What may appear as a minor change to your Web site can negatively impact your Web site's performance and availability. 2. Be realistic -- If the load generated on your Web site during your load test is not realistic, the results are at best useless and, at worst, dangerously misleading. Make sure your load test uses a real-world methodology that accurately reflects the rate and pattern that your visitors arrive and leave your Web site. 3. Know your Web site visitors -- Not all your Web site visitors are alike. Your load test should account for different types of visitor behavior on your Web site. For example, visitors trying to execute a stock transaction will have very different tolerance and tenacity thresholds than will a user trying to view a weather update. Your load test should accommodate variable online behaviors for different types of actions on your Web site. 4. Test scenarios A set of test cases that ensure that the business process flows are tested from end to end. They may be independent tests or a series of tests that follow each other, each dependent on the output of the previous one. The terms "test scenario" and "test case" are often used synonymously. as dynamic as your visitors -- Your visitors can interact with your Web site in a variety of ways. They can often navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. through a multitude of different paths to get to the same end-point or enter a variety of different data inputs to generate dynamic content. Make sure that your Web site can accommodate these dynamic patterns without tedious, hard-coding of test scripts The instructions in a test program. It defines the actions and pass/fail criteria. For example, if the action is "to enter a valid account number," the expected result is that the data are accepted. Entering an invalid number should yield a particular error message. See test case. and huge resource time commitments. 5. Understand the cost of poor Web site performance -- Suppose you know that your Web site is performing on average 5 seconds slower than it was a month before. What conclusions can you draw? How many users abandoned your site due to poor performance? At what point did they abandon the site? How much potential revenue was lost as a result? Choose a load testing solution that can quantify Quantify - A performance analysis tool from Pure Software. the business implications of your Web site's performance. 6. Schedule regular Web site health check-ups -- If you only load test your site during high-volume periods such as Christmas or Valentine's Day Valentine's Day: see Saint Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day Lovers' holiday celebrated on February 14, the feast day of St. Valentine, one of two 3rd-century Roman martyrs of the same name. St. , you may be losing loyal customers to your competitors during the remainder of the year. The key to a high-performing Web site involves more than just running a pre-deployment load test, but also performing periodic tests throughout the lifespan lifespan Longevity Epidemiology The genetically endowed limit to life for a person, if free of exogenous risk factors. See Average lifespan, Life expectancy. of your Web site. 7. Simplify testing -- Simplify the administration of your load tests. Your business environment is dynamic -- often necessitating last minute changes to your Web site. A self-service hosted solution will give you the flexibility to schedule your tests at a moment's notice and to change test scenarios on the fly. With the insurance of a self-service load test, you won't have to worry how even the most minor changes will impact your users. 8. Stop the finger-pointing -- Eliminate "It's not my fault" accusations within your organization. By accurately pinpointing the cause of the performance degradation DEGRADATION, punishment, ecclesiastical law. A censure by which a clergy man is deprived of his holy orders, which he had as a priest or deacon. or capacity bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU , you can quickly identify the source of the problem and remedy the issue before it negatively affects your valued customers. 9. Respond to constant change -- Changes within organizations are often unpredictable and difficult to plan. A last minute change to your infrastructure such as an application upgrade, network configuration change, load balancer setting or database modification can cause performance variations. Prepare your Web site by testing these Web site changes with a full-service, turnkey See turnkey system. load test and a flexible, self-service testing solution. 10. Spend your IT budget wisely -- Don't assume that a high-performing Web site requires endless investments in systems and bandwidth. Adding additional servers and bandwidth isn't a foolproof solution to fixing performance problems on your Web site. Only invest in additional infrastructure when your tests definitively point to capacity bottlenecks as the problem. Your load test should be able to help you accurately isolate isolate /iso·late/ (i´sah-lat) 1. to separate from others. 2. a group of individuals prevented by geographic, genetic, ecologic, social, or artificial barriers from interbreeding with others of their kind. the true cause of the performance issue. About Keynote LoadSuite Keynote's LoadSuite combines the best of both Keynote capacity testing services -- KeyReadiness LoadPro and Test Perspective -- into one packaged solution. KeyReadiness LoadPro is an award-winning consultative load testing service designed to satisfy all of the testing needs of an e-business, even during its most critical Web site periods, such as the launch of a new Web site or holiday campaign. Keynote's Test Perspective service is a self-service offering that allows you to periodically run your own tests on demand, evaluate changes to your Web site or transactions and view the results instantly. E-businesses can now safeguard their Web site with the accuracy of an up-front consultative service and the flexibility of an ongoing self-service testing offering. Keynote's all-inclusive testing services provide the most accurate, flexible and affordable load testing solutions available today. Pricing and Availability Keynote LoadSuite is currently available. LoadSuite is available in a variety of packages and additional options to accommodate different testing needs and budget. A 3-month subscription is priced starting at $40,000 for full-service and self-service load tests. A 6-month or 12-month subscription package is also available. Each subscription includes self-service load testing consisting of the following: an unlimited number of self-run load tests, 30 hours of testing per month, load levels starting at 1,000 concurrent users In computer science, the number of concurrent users for a resource in a location, with the location being a computing network or a single computer, refers to the total number of people using the resource at the same time. , 5 changeable test script slots and instructional training. Each subscription also includes full-service turnkey load testing consisting of full-service load tests conducted by experienced consultants, up to 5 customized test scenarios, load levels starting at 10,000 sessions/1,000 concurrent users, a comprehensive test plan, test report and consultative recommendations. Keynote Systems, Inc. Keynote Systems (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority(R), is the worldwide leader in Internet performance services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, test and manage their e-business applications both inside and outside the firewall. By improving the quality of their e-business, companies reduce costs, gain operational efficiency, protect and grow revenue and stay ahead of the competition. More than 2,900 corporate IT departments, Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. companies and Internet service and content delivery providers around the world have implemented the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services. Keynote Systems, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650/403-2400. 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