Government Top 40

The Keynote Government Index measures and benchmarks the performance of the home pages of 40 major U.S. Federal Government Web Sites from the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) on high-speed links attached to key points on the largest U.S. Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbones.

Keynote Government 40 Internet Performance Index

How it Works!
These measurements are taken by automated agents attached to key points of the Internet backbone in the 10 largest metropolitan areas of the United States.

The public Index uses measurements taken Monday through Sunday. Keynote subscribers receive KB40 measurements and measurement components such as DNS lookup time and TCP connect round-trip time. Subscribers can also investigate KB40 performance based on city, backbone, or agent.

The KB40 is measured by Keynote's commercially available Transaction Perspective Web performance measurement product. This software-as-a-service product measures download speed for well-connected major business users (T-1 to T-3 connection speeds) and ISP peering performance. To ensure that any difficulties in downloads are not due to congestion, our nationwide test & measurement network keeps its connections to the Internet lightly loaded.

Measured performance depends on factors such as geographic location, backbone connectivity, and network infrastructure at each measurement location. The performance experienced by an individual user in one of the locations may be better or worse than our measured average. It depends on how users are connected to their ISP and how the ISP connects to the Internet.

To view the previous weekly index results, please go to the Index Archives