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You Wait a Bit More at Consumer Sites

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Thursday, August 24, 2000

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Have you noticed a slight slowdown while surfing lately?

So have the experts. Overall performance is worse this week -- going from 14.48 to 14.89 seconds -- according to new data from the Keynote/AnchorDesk Consumer 40 Index (see below).

The speed leader remains Ameritrade, with four portals rounding out the top five.

Keynote Consumer 40 Index over Dial-Up
Week of August 13 - 19, 2000
Index Performance (in seconds)	This Week	Last Week
Overall	14.89	14.48
Top 5 Sites	This Week	Last Week
Ameritrade	3.61	3.42
Yahoo!	4.75	4.73
Lycos	6.11	5.89
Go.com	6.46	5.67
Snap	7.02	7.11
Slowest Site (Anonymous)	44.15	43.68

Category Averages
Performance	This Week	Last Week
Portal/Search	8.74	8.49
Brokerages	13.58	13.06
eShopping	18.73	18.26
Travel	18.90	18.50

Republican Convention Site via T1/T3 from 25 US Cities
12 PM to 10 PM PT	Performance	Availability
July 31 - 1st Night	34.60	98.0 %
August 1 - 2nd Night	29.18	97.5 %
August 2 - 3rd Night	27.55	99.0 %
August 3 - 4th Night	31.50	96.2 %

Democratic Convention Site via T1/T3 from 25 US Cities
12 PM to 10 PM PT	Performance	Availability
August 14 - 1st Night	5.77	90.0 %
August 15 - 2nd Night	5.90	93.1 %
August 16 - 3rd Night	5.18	82.8 %
August 17 - 4th Night	5.22	92.0 %

George W. Bush Site via T1/T3 from 25 US Cities
August 3 -- Speech Night	Performance	Availability
12 PM to 10 PM	4.02	94.7 %
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM	10.77	91.2 %

Al Gore Site via T1/T3 from 25 US Cities
August 3 -- Speech Night	Performance	Availability
12 PM to 10 PM	7.57	73.8 %
8:00 PM to 9:00 PM	*	0.0 % *

* Keynote measurement agents were unable to successfully download all contents of the home page without content errors or page timeouts.
Source: Keynote Systems, Inc.

GROUP SPEEDS
The fastest cateogry? Portal/search. Next comes brokerage sites, followed by e-shopping and travel.

CONVENTION WATCH
The Ds win this race, with times just under six seconds over T1/T3 lines. Not bad. One factor hurting the Rs' site: a home page nearly twice as large as the enemy.

Post acceptance speech download times for George Dubyuh's site more than double. Why? Increased traffic is the likely reason.

Veep Gore's site is a no-show following his speech.

Perhaps your surfing speeds will improve this week, now that political sites are out of the news. You think? Let me know in Talkback below.

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