Keynote is a Porivo competitor backed by high-profile venture
capital group Hummer Winblad. In addition to regular Web site testing using its
Prophecy product, Keynote also tests eCommerce transaction times through its Sensory
product, and analyzes traffic bottlenecks with its Discovery product, still in
development. Keynote’s Sensory testing of 27 popular shopping sites the week
before Christmas, 2000 gave top marks to (now defunct) eToys.com, as well as
sites by J.Crew, Landsend, and Amazon. The average page response in the test
varied between 1 and 9 seconds, with total time to complete a transaction
varied from 1 to 5 minutes. Most of the sites were able to complete a
transaction, from front page to credit card processing, in less than three
minutes.
Keynote has partnered with fellow P2P firm Entropia to gain
access to Entropia’s network of 100,000 PCs in 80 countries. A similar deal
with P2P company Distributed Science gives Keynote access to 70,000 computers.
Using networks of representative user computers has many advantages over the
common practice of using servers co-located at Internet service providers' data
centers to simulate hits on a Web site. "Co-located machines don't provide
the response times that the end-user sees because they're not resident within
the last mile," said Keynote president and CEO Jeff Tonkel.
The company also offers private label versions of its
software, and is partnered with Ariba, Commerce One, Price Waterhouse Coopers,
and Arthur Andersen, among others.
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