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Performance Tracking > 2009 Hurricane Season

WebSitePulse 2010 Hurricane Season Web Performance Report Summary

It is time to call it a day and officialy announce the end of this year's Hurricane Season Web Performance Report which took place from August 1st to October 30, 2010. During this time we constantly monitored some of the key websites that provide real-time forecasts, details, emergency information and donation opportunities when disasters strike. The free service is part of our Company contribution to the online community as we firmly believe that the constant availability of such sites can be crucial, even lifesaving, in times of hurricanes, floods, and other natural or man-caused disasters.

The complete data from the measurements of some of the most visited hurricane and disaster-related websites is now at your disposal. The Reports reflect the most common performance criteria: response time and availability - in-depht analytical information is also collected and stored in the WebSitePulse system for future references.

Here are the highlights of this year::

Only one website managed to achieve the 100% uptime mark
Two of the websites were plagued by frequent cases of high loading times. However, no severe downtimes were detected and overall we can conclude that the Group delivered the expected levels of End-User experience and Customer satisfaction.
The average uptime of all of the sites this year is 99.944%, which is higher than last year's 99.760%.
The fastest average loading time is 0.389 seconds which raises the bar very high for next year.

The summarized numbers and averages for the entire monitoring period are shown in the tables below:

Average Response times for the whole period

#	Target	Trumbull, CT	San Francisco, CA	Chicago, IL	Avg. resp. time
1	nhc.noaa.gov	0.222	0.596	0.350	0.389
2	weather.com	0.370	0.855	0.487	0.571
3	floridadisaster.org	0.241	1.384	0.718	0.781
4	redcross.org	1.103	1.694	1.302	1.366
5	salvationarmy.org	1.840	2.522	2.078	2.146

Average Uptime for the whole period

#	Target	Trumbull, CT	San Francisco, CA	Chicago, IL	Avg. uptime
1	weather.com	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%
2	redcross.org	99.988%	99.997%	99.996%	99.994%
3	nhc.noaa.gov	99.984%	99.986%	99.991%	99.987%
4	floridadisaster.org	99.974%	99.979%	99.977%	99.977%
5	salvationarmy.org	99.765%	99.770%	99.753%	99.763%

Best regards, and takeITeasy™ with WebSitePulse™

Iavor Marinoff, CEO

Report Methodology:
WebSitePulse Performance Reports measure Uptime and Response Time as the most important metrics for the availability and the reliability of any web-based operation. Performance measurement took place daily, every 15 minutes during the entire Hurricane season, between the hours of 6AM and 3AM EST. The WebSitePulse website monitoring service was used to collect data and to create the reports.
The simultaneous monitoring is performed from 3 US locations of the WebSitePulse monitoring network: Trumbull, CT, San Francisco, CA and Chicago, IL. In case of a detected malfunction or unavailability, the system performs automated error verification from 3 independent resources and only after the above procedure is performed and has returned consistent results, the detected error is confirmed, recorded, and included in the daily performance reports. In these cases, an advanced WebSitePulse exclusive feature comes into play - Forced Monitoring - which automatically switches to a 3 minute - monitoring interval for increased accuracy.

About WebSitePulse:
WebSitePulse is a leading provider of global, independent, and objective availability and performance monitoring of web sites, servers, network components, web applications, e-business- and email round-trip transactions.

Contact:
For more information about this report please contact:
George T., CTO
phone: 1-407-380-1600
email:

Reproduction:
WebSitePulse launched the Performance and Uptime Reports program to keep the general public and the Internet community informed about the performance of specific websites and the challenges their webmasters, owners and operators are facing on a daily basis, especially when the web traffic intensifies due to some special events through the year. Some of the most popular web destinations, related to each particular event, are selected for the purpose of the Reports, and data from their performance measurements is made available on the WebSitePulse public website.

With the intention to broadly disseminate this information for the benefit of the Internet community, we encourage the use of this information without prior approval and under the following Terms and Conditions:

WebSitePulse should be referred as the "Source" of the information;
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The texts of the Reports could be changed or altered to better suit the needs and the style of the publisher without prior notice to WebSitePulse. However, the integrity and the meaning of the information should be preserved;

The Data from the performance measurements cannot be changed or manipulated and should be used "as is".