(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web application experience management provider Gomez (www.gomez.com) has announced that its web performance load testing and monitoring network now exceeds 100,000 consumer-grade desktop computers in 168 countries, using 2,500 local Internet service providers.
Gomez’s Last Mile network is the industry’s only network shows businesses how their web applications perform at the “edge” of the Internet on real, consumer-grade desktop computers, connected via dial-up, DSL, cable, and low and high-speed broadband. It shows users how variables like location, consumer-grade ISPs, content delivery networks, connection speeds and computer performance all impact the end-user’s web performance.
“To deliver quality Web experiences, you have to test from wherever your end-users are,” Gomez chief technology officer Imad Mouline said in a statement. “The reach and diversity of the Gomez Last Mile network helps businesses target their web application performance testing in a laser-like fashion, right down to the city, region or country. For businesses with audiences in specific regions – or planning to move into new markets – it is the only realistic way to find and resolve business-impacting performance issues.”
The successful delivery of web applications hinges on a complex arrangement of third-party content providers, cloud and web services, content delivery networks, ISPs and wireless carriers delivering content to an end-user’s browser. Using consumer-grade computers, Gomez’s Last Mile network provides a real-world way of reporting object-level detail about the speed and availability of web applications on a virtual test bed of more than 500 browsers and operating systems.
Gomez has also been adding to other aspects of its monitoring software. Last week, it launched the Gomez Cross-Browser Compatibility Test (instanttest.gomez.com), a free web-based tool that automatically tests how websites look in four commonly-used combinations of browsers and operating systems, saving web developers both time and money.
To build its Last Mile network, Gomez recruits the computers of “peers”, consumer-grade computers from everyday people, who volunteer their unused processing cycles to execute web performance tests on its customers’ websites for compensation.
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