FC: News websites even today have slowed to a crawl, from Keynote

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: "Daniel D. Todd" <dan.todd () keynote com>
Subject: Keynote Election Update -- The Morning After
To: "Daniel D. Todd" <dan.todd () keynote com>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 08:52:58 -0800 
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)

Here is Keynote's updated report measuring the performance and availability
of the Web sites for the major candidates, parties and news organizations
involved in today's National Elections. 

The New York Times website is seeing terrible performance this morning as
well as a significant degradation in response rate. Worse than anything we
measured from their site yesterday. It is not clear whether or not this
problem is being caused by readers visiting the website for election
information. We are continuing to see troubles at MSNBC and USA Today.
MSNBC Performance is very much in line with what we have seen from them
throughout the election process. USA Today's performance is worse than it
had been through most of election day. ABCNews, CNN and The Washington Post
seem to be working well. Yahoo! continues to perform very well.

With the Exception of Ralph Nader's website performance from the candidate
and party sites has returned to normal.
  
Keynote Report on Elections Site Performance 
5:00pm - 8:00pm PST, November 8, 2000 

Overall performance comparison to the Keynote Business 40 Internet
Performance Index, an industry standard benchmark of the overall health of
the Internet, for this same reporting period: 

Keynote Business 40 (25 US Metro Areas)    5.78 98.1% 

Site                            URL
Performance / Response Rate 
ABCNews         www.abcnews.com/                2.55    99.2%
Al Gore                 www.algore2000.com/             0.84    100.0%
All Politics            www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/        3.31    98.3%
CNN.com                 www.cnn.com/                    4.24    98.7%
Democratic N.C.         www.democrats.org/              6.45    99.3%
FirstGov                www.firstgov.gov/               0.78    99.9%
George W. Bush  www.georgewbush.com/    8.56    98.5%
MSNBC           www.msnbc.com/          27.08   84.4%
New York Times  www.nytimes.com/                110.17  64.2%
Pat Buchanan            www.buchananreform.com/         1.72    99.4%
Republican N.C.         www.rnc.org/                    3.20    100.0%
Shadow Conventions      www.shadowconvention.com/       3.51    100.0%
USA Today               www.usatoday.com/               15.18   98.2%
VoteNader.com           www.votenader.com/              17.93   91.7%
Washington Post         www.washingtonpost.com/         1.49    99.9%
Yahoo!                  www.yahoo.com                   0.59    100.0%

*National Committee 

Source:  Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN).  Keynote, The Internet Performance
Authority®, is the 
worldwide leader in e-commerce benchmarking and Web performance management
services that improve the quality of e-business. 
  

Keynote's measurements were taken every 15 minutes from 25 metro areas
around the US from 
5:00 am through 8:00 am PST. 

Performance is the average time, in seconds, the URL took to completely
download. Response rate is the percentage of requests made by Keynote
measurement computers which resulted in the base page being properly
downloaded. 

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