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October 23, 2003 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Speedera Networks (speedera.com), a provider of content delivery services, released SpeedRank yesterday, a browser-accessible Internet measurement service that delivers data on the performance and availability of 100 major Web sites.
The company said SpeedRank supplies information on how indexed sites rank against its competitors, within its own industry and against others industries. The service yields aggregate trend information about Web site performance and can be used to understand how the Internet responds to fluctuations caused by natural disasters, media events, seasonal traffic spikes from online shoppers, and blackouts from electrical power outages.
According to Speedera, the service also provides detailed information about the time required for each of the tasks that comprise total page download time, including DNS lookup, first packet transfer, TCP connect, data packets transfer, and SSL handshake. These metrics allow users to pinpoint potential site performance and scalability issues, the company said.
"SpeedRank provides an in-depth Internet availability and performance index that is unlike anything else on the market and is freely accessible to all," said Ajit Gupta, CEO of Speedera Networks. "Now, Web site operators can get a true understanding of what drives the uptime and download speed of their sites - and how their sites rank against others in their industry sector. For those who want to understand the larger dynamics of the Internet, SpeedRank also provides valuable global insights into the health of the Internet as a whole, both on a daily basis and over the longer term, through monitoring a wide sample of key web sites and key industry sectors."
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