News & Events: Press News Alerts

Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:30 AM

Keynote Tallies Performance of Online Contributions in the Race for President

Dear Industry Influencer:

Keynote Adds Multipage Transaction Measurements to Official Sites for Dean, Bush, GOP and Democratic National Committee

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), The Internet Performance Authority ®, announced today that it has added transaction measurements to four major political sites which will measure the performance of the sites for end users accessing them to make a contribution. A transaction is defined as a Web site’s ability to allow a visitor to click through a number of pages and successfully make a contribution.

The four sites being measured for the purposes of these transactions are:

As announced last week, Keynote will closely monitor and report to the media the download performance of all the leading presidential candidates’ Web sites now until election day in November. Additionally, Keynote will be measuring streaming performance for those presidential candidates offering streaming off their site. (See press release <http://www.keynote.com/news_events/releases_2004/04jan07.html>)

In addition to measuring homepage download performance and the “success rate” (the percentage of times out of 100 attempts that users can actually successfully log onto the site) of the presidential candidates’ Web sites, Keynote will also measure the performance of the official party sites of the Democrats, Republicans, Green Party and MoveOn.org.

(Note: For up to the minute commentary and data please email or phone me at the contact information below or Dan Berkowitz at dberkowitz@keynote.com, 650-403-3305)