Performance Management: Performance Indices

The Keynote Online Retail Transaction Performance Index

Critical to the success of any online retailer is the ability for its customers to find and purchase products online. The experience should be fast and free from errors. The Keynote Online Retail Transaction Performance Index measures the performance and availability of this key path online. This includes searching for an item, adding it to the shopping cart. All measurements are taken from the ten large 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. The index suite consists of three distinct categories, each focusing on a specific vertical in the online retail industry:

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