The Online Race for President: Keynote to Officiate.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)--Jan. 7, 2004 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)
Brave New Cyber World of Presidential Politics Requires Peak
Performance to Turn Clicks into Campaign Dollars and Ultimately Votes
Keynote Web Performance Report: Presidential Candidates' Web Site;
Initial Performance Results
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commentary useful to stories being developed about the Internet's
growing importance to the upcoming national election for President.
The Internet continues to break new ground this presidential election year in its ability to generate awareness, excitement and propel candidates forward. With the new year upon us and the online race to the White House heating up, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority (R), announced today that it will closely monitor and report to the media the download performance of all the leading presidential candidates' Web sites now until election day in November. Additionally, Keynote will also be measuring streaming performance for those presidential candidates offering streaming off their site. In addition to measuring homepage download performance and the "success rate" (the percentage of times out of 100 attempts that users can actually successfully log onto the site) of the presidential candidates' Web sites, Keynote will also measure the performance of the official party sites of the Democrats, Republicans, Green Party and MoveOn.org. Assuring optimal Web performance this presidential year is taking on new-found meaning as the Howard Dean Howard Brush Dean III (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and physician from the U.S. state of Vermont, and currently the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the central organ of the Democratic Party at the national level. campaign, and the campaigns of other candidates, leverage the power of their Web sites more extensively than ever before seen in a presidential campaign; from fundraising to empowering grass roots grass roots pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. People or society at a local level rather than at the center of major political activity. Often used with the. 2. The groundwork or source of something. organizing (with all the needed paraphernalia PARAPHERNALIA. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to retain as her own property, after her husband's death; they consist generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, which she used personally during his life. downloadable off their site) to running Web logs (or BLOGs, as commonly known). "The Dean site set the bar higher than all the other candidates' Web sites when it first began receiving national attention. The other candidates' sites followed suit, including the Republican candidate President George W. Bush," said Roopak Patel, senior Internet analyst in Keynote's public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. division. "Therefore, the performance of all the presidential candidates' Web sites is more critical than in election years past as the campaigns are relying more heavily than ever on high functioning, highly available sites that are leveraged to create awareness, support grass roots organizing and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially raise money." Initial Summary Results for Presidential Candidates' Web Site Performance (Note: Keynote is continuing to measure these sites. For up to the minute commentary and data please email or phone the editorial contacts noted on this press release.) Keynote measured the performance around the clock of all the leading presidential candidates' Web sites on an hourly basis from 5:00 a.m. on December 17 until 5:00 p.m. pacific standard time on January 5. The best performing sites for this time period are those of Carol Moseley Braun Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun (born August 16, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. She was the first, and to date, the only, African American woman elected to the United States Senate. , the Democratic National Committee and MoveOn.org, which all delivered their home pages in less than 2.0 seconds. The slowest sites were those of Dick Gephardt, Dennis Kucinich  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. and John Edwards This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. which averaged 8.3 seconds, 5.9 seconds and 5.3 seconds respectively. The range of performance for these sites was 6.9 seconds to 14.0 seconds, 5.5 seconds to 7.8 seconds and 4.7 seconds to 5.5 seconds respectively. The success rates are all consistently over 98% for most of the sites. The most erratic availability was for MoveOn.org, the Republican national committee and Dick Gephardt's sites. These sites had periods of 95% availability or less. Keynote maintains the world's largest and most statistically accurate and representative 24/7 real time Web site measurement and monitoring infrastructure for understanding and optimizing performance from the end user perspective. Keynote is capturing the response times and success rates of the presidential candidates' Web sites from measurement computers located in 25 U.S. cities placed on the following backbones: Atlanta Uunet, Boston Uunet, Chicago Uunet, Cincinnati C&W, Cleveland Genuity, Dallas Uunet, Denver Qwest, Detroit Level3, Houston Uunet, Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). Sprint, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Qwest, Miami Uunet, Milwaukee Cogent, Minneapolis Genuity, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of AT&T, Philadelphia Level3, Phoenix AT&T, Pittsburgh MH2, Portland MH1, San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Level 3, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Sprint, Seattle Internap, St. Louis Level3, Tampa Qwest, Washington D.C. Qwest. For purposes of this continuing study Keynote is measuring the following URLs: -- www.sharpton2004.org -- www.johnedwards2004.com/home.asp -- www.carolforpresident.com/content.php -- www.democrats.org/ -- www.kucinich.us/index.php -- www.dickgephardt2004.com/plugin/template/gephardt/welcome/* -- www.georgebush.com/ -- www.gp.org/ -- www.deanforamerica.com/ -- www.joe2004.com/site/PageServer -- www.johnkerry.com/ -- www.moveon.org/ -- www.gop.com/ -- www.clark04.com/ About Keynote Founded in 1995, Keynote Systems, Inc., (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority(R), is the worldwide leader in Web performance measurement and management services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote's services enable corporate enterprises to monitor, benchmark, test, diagnose and optimize their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. Approximately 2,200 corporate IT departments and 17,000 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to increase revenues and reduce downtime costs, without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations. Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. and can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400. Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority and Perspective are registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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