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Keynote Awards Gold Medal Mobile Retail Sites

Michael Garrity — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:30:00 GMT

Just as the 2012 Summer Olympics were getting underway in London, Keynote Systems announced its own event, the International Summer Games for Mobile Retailers.

For three weeks, the mobile communications and Internet performance measurement company will name weekly Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners determined by the “Keynote Mobile Retail Index – World Edition,” which assesses the download speed and reliability of leading mobile retail sites by measuring them on smartphone devices from a variety of countries.

Index scores are based on a combination of a site’s average speed and reliability, and are measured all day, everyday over the course of a week (from Tuesday to Tuesday). The Mobile Retail Index will show average response times, success rates, and a composite score for homepage downloads on selected retailer sites.

Yesterday, Keynote announced the big winners for the first week of “competition.” The popular French brand Chanel took the Gold, largely because of its simple, sleek site that gave it the highest combined score for Load Time and Success Rate, as well as the site’s ability to maintain 100 percent availability.

German companies secured the next three spots, with the country’s Amazon site taking the Silver and ALDI capturing the Bronze. Despite having the fastest measured Load Time for the second consecutive week, Germany’s OTTO just missed out on the Bronze spot, but did make the jump up to fourth place by improving its availability numbers from 98.5 percent to 99.09 percent. Rounding out the top five was Amazon Japan, who secured 100 percent availability for the second week in a row.

Click here to see the whole list of winners for the first week of performance, and don’t forget to keep your eyes peeled to see who takes the Gold next week!

Keynote Rolls Out New UX Performance Metrics

Michael Garrity — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Internet and mobile cloud testing and monitoring firm Keynote Systems has announced the availability of its Keynote Transaction Perspective 11 and MyKeynote 11 solutions.

Transaction Perspective, an on-demand site-monitoring service for Web performance, now provides brand new user-experience (UX) metrics that leverage the capabilities of Internet Explorer 9.

These new UX metrics include the following:

Time to First Paint: This shows the moment when on-screen rendering begins and tells a user that the site is responding to their action.

Time to Full Screen: This shows when a user’s browser or screen has completely rendered the page (even if additional rendering takes place below the fold).

Time to Interactive Page: The final metric indicates when users can start clicking or swiping or doing whatever they do with the content on the page.

Version 11 will also feature nine new Browser Event metrics based on specifications laid out by the W3C Navigation Timing standard, allowing Keynote to offer enterprise-level IT operations greater insights into the performance of all key phases in a Web page’s lifecycle by observing in more granular detail the small milestones that take place during a browser’s construction of the page.

This information will be presented via the MyKeynote monitoring portal for Web and mobile sites, redesigned to help operations teams find and use performance data charts and graphs in their day-to-day management of websites.

Measuring all of these key milestones in a Web page’s delivery is growing in importance because recent research from Microsoft claims that 250 milliseconds — the virtual blink of an eye — can make the difference between a repeat visitor and a lost customer.

“Businesses are finding new ways to make Web pages feel faster to customers," says Keynote VP of product management and corporate development Vik Chaudhary. “That perception of performance, or user experience, is critical for businesses to monitor closely and now requires measuring much more than total page speed. They must measure user experience from start to finish.”

Keynote and the Online Experience

Pete Prestipino — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:02:00 GMT

Keynote Systems, a provider of on-demand mobile and Internet testing and measurement solutions, has made it possible to test and analyze the performance of sites and applications (from the cloud mind you) with single-click functionality from the KITE (Keynote Internet Testing Environment) desktop software.

“We’ve done for cloud testing what Amazon did for online shopping,” said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. “Now, with 1-click functionality, anyone can determine the performance of a website from around the world.”

Users will also be able to use Keynote’s cloud storage to store the 20 most recently executed performance test scripts for reporting and analysis. Other new KITE features enable users to build and share scripts and performance results with their colleagues and across teams via email, Facebook and iGoogle and across multiple file formats.

Download KITE for free at http://kite.keynote.com