| February 03, 2000
PRESS RELEASE
"Father of the Internet" Gore Leads
Bradley in Internet Performance Duel According to
Keynote
Bush Leads Republican Candidates in Competition Among
Official Web Sites
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SAN MATEO, California, February 3, 2000 - The official
web site of the Al Gore campaign beat the performance
of the Bill Bradley site by 12 percent on New Hampshire
Primary day according to more than 38,000 measurements
conducted by Keynote (Nasdaq:KEYN), the Internet performance
authorityTM. Meanwhile, the George W. Bush web site
performed faster than the web sites of the other four
Republican candidates. The Bush site was also fastest
overall at 3.53 seconds average performance while the
official Steve Forbes web site was the slowest of the
seven sites at 14.56 seconds.
The following table shows the performance of the web
sites of the Democratic and Republican presidential
candidates as measured by Keynote every 15 minutes
on Tuesday, February 1 from 12:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Pacific time from computers at 66 Internet access points
in 25 large metropolitan areas around the United States.
The table indicates the average time in seconds required
to access and download the home page of each web site
over a T-1 or T-3 Internet connection. Lower numbers
are better and indicate faster performance. The table
also shows the average size in kilobytes (thousands
of bytes) of the site's home page including all of
the graphics and photographs.
Official Web Average Size of Home Page
Site Performance
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George W. Bush 3.53 94 KB
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Gary Bauer 4.03 72 KB
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Al Gore 4.42 215 KB
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Bill Bradley 5.04 82 KB
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John McCain 5.28 81 KB
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Alan Keyes 5.40 68 KB
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Steve Forbes 14.56 172 KB
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According to public information sources, the official
web sites of the presidential candidates run a variety
of server software and connect to the Internet via
different access providers.
Candidate: George W. Bush
Internet Address: www.georgewbush.com
Web-Site Software: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Internet Access or Hosting: Exodus Communications in
Austin, Texas
Candidate: Gary Bauer
Internet Address: www.bauer2k.com
Web-Site Software: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Internet Access or Hosting: Atlantech in Silver Spring,
Maryland
Candidate: Al Gore
Internet Address: www.algore2000.com
Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Linux
Internet Access or Hosting: Exodus Communications in
Sterling, Virginia
Candidate: Bill Bradley
Internet Address: www.billbradley.com
Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Sun Solaris
Internet Access or Hosting: Shore.Net in Lynn, Massachusetts
Candidate: John McCain
Internet Address: www.mccain2000.com
Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/4.0 on Sun Solaris
Internet Access or Hosting: US West in Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Candidate: Alan Keyes
Internet Address: www.keyes2000.org
Web-Site Software: Apache/1.3.9 on Sun Solaris
Internet Access or Hosting: SimpleNet in San Diego,
California
Candidate: Steve Forbes
Internet Address: www.forbes2000.com
Web-Site Software: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1 on Sun
Solaris
Internet Access or Hosting: USinternetworking in Annapolis,
Maryland
How Keynote Measured the Presidential Candidate Web
Sites
Keynote used its PerspectiveTM service to measure
the performance and availability of the official web
sites of the presidential candidates every 15 minutes
from computers at 66 Internet access points in 25 metropolitan
locations around the United States which are a subset
of Keynote's global network of measurement computers
in over 120 locations around the world. Keynote will
continue the measurements through November 2000 and
periodically report the results as a public service.
How Keynote Measures Quality of Service
The Keynote PerspectiveTM service profiles the complete
user experience of executing interactive multi-page
transactions, such as buying merchandise or making
a travel reservation, and downloading content, including
graphics and banner ads, from World Wide Web sites
to multiple locations around the world. The service
supports industry-standard HTTP and secure HTTPS, the
same protocols used by the Microsoft and Netscape web
browsers. The measurements can be performed every 15
minutes around the clock from each of Keynote's automated
measurement locations which are connected to the Internet
via T-1 or T-3 communication lines. Performance results
and availability rates for measured web sites, for
a popular Site-of-the-Week and for the Keynote Business
40 Index are available in real time via MyKeynote software
to anyone with a web browser. Keynote Perspective also
provides daily quality-of-service summary reports by
email as well as an alarm service that notifies subscribers
by pager or email of outages or deteriorations in quality
of service.
About Keynote
Keynote is the largest provider of Internet performance
measurement, diagnostic and consulting services to
companies that operate e-commerce web sites. The
company markets Keynote PerspectiveTM and Keynote
LifelineTM, global real-time services that measure,
assure and improve the Quality of Service of e-commerce
web sites around the world. The company captures
over 16 million performance measurements daily using
Keynote's global infrastructure of more than 300
measurement computers connected to the major Internet
backbones in over 120 statistically selected locations
across 50 metropolitan areas worldwide. Internet
performance and availability data are collected at
Keynote's sophisticated operations center and are
instantly available to customers through any web
browser.
Keynote customers include over 700 leading e-commerce
web sites and hosting companies including AdForce,
Amazon.com, CDNow, Compaq Computer, Cisco Systems,
Dell Computer, Digex, DoubleClick, Exodus Communications,
Microsoft, National Semiconductor, and Sabre Holdings.
For further information about Keynote Perspective
or Keynote Lifeline, or to schedule a free one-week
comparative performance appraisal of a web site, visit
Keynote's web site at http://www.keynote.com/newsfpa.html or contact the company at Keynote Systems, Inc., 2855
Campus Drive, San Mateo, California 94403, telephone
(650) 522-1000, fax (650) 522-1099, email info@keynote.com
Note: To request further information or an interview,
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Keynote, Perspective, Lifeline, AccuStat and The Internet
Performance Authority are trademarks of Keynote Systems.
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owners.
Editorial Contacts:
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote, (650) 522-1168, dberkowitz@keynote.com
Mary Lindsay, Lindsay PR, (408) 984-7242, mary@lindsaypr.com
Deniz Bolbol, Eastwick Communications, (650) 480-4028,
deniz@eastwick.com
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