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| You Wait a Bit More at Consumer Sites |
| By AnchorDesk Staff: ZDNet AnchorDesk |
| Thursday, August 24, 2000 |
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. | ||