Companies with world-class Web sites – like retailers, advertising companies, and social networking companies – regularly measure the responsiveness of their sites as experienced by their visitors so they can tweak for improvements.

Measuring the benefits of Web acceleration software can be difficult without a large network of servers and clients, so Web companies pay service-providers like Compuware Gomez and Keynote to download the contents of their Web site to computers located in cities around the world. This shows average site availability and average page download time, key metrics from which they can estimate how responsive the site might be for visitors.

Methodology: Gomez measures average response time of Web pages, which is the time elapsed while downloading entire Web pages or individual Web objects. Data points from each successful test run are collected from multiple testing nodes around the world and aggregated to formulate benchmarks. Graphs report cities on the X-axis and time elapsed on the Y-axis.

Click on the thumbnail images below to see comparisons of file downloads with and without FastSoft’s web acceleration.

Test conditions: San Francisco web server, 20KB and 1MB files uploaded to 16 cities across N. America, S. America, Asia, Europe, and Australia.

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