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AlertSite Releases Top Ten Report for Leading Flower Web Sites for Mother's Day
Flower.com outperforms major sites like FTD.com and 1-800-Flowers.com for
reliability and speed
5/9/2007
AlertSite, a leading
provider of web performance measurement, systems monitoring and security
vulnerability scanning, today revealed its two-week monitoring test of the
leading ten retail flower web sites.
Over a two-week period, AlertSite measured ten leading flower retail
Internet sites and tested them for availability and speed. AlertSite
monitored each site over 11,000 times from three locations: Atlanta,
Chicago and San Francisco.
Ranking Site Full-page Response % Availability of Site
(in seconds)
1. Flower.com 1.460 99.98
2. Floristexpress.net 1.582 99.90
3. Teleflora.com 1.958 99.60
4. Proflowers.com 2.028 99.93
5. Flowerbud.com 2.104 99.96
6. FTD.com 2.293 99.97
7. Hallmarkflowers.com 2.346 97.12
8. 1-800-flowers.com 3.103 99.26
9. Coasttocoast.com 4.322 99.48
10. Flowergram.com 5.352 99.29
Ken Gross, CEO of AlertSite, analyzed the findings. "At first glance,
you wouldn't think there's much difference, but four seconds in a company's
full- page response time is significant. We're all web savvy and accustomed
to quick connections. Just try to count to 5 every time you click the mouse
-- more than likely, you'll move on to another site to make a purchase."
Gross adds, "I'm amazed a smaller company's web site such as flower.com
was able to outperform major flower sites. A site performing at 97%
availability could be disastrous-a retail company can lose a lot of money
when their site doesn't respond. Overall we found the flower web sites did
very well and should be ready for Mother's Day purchases...which reminds me
... ."
AlertSite tested these sites using its exclusive Uptime ECT technology,
which monitors for "true uptime" availability by testing simultaneously
from three cities. AlertSite's full-page response time measured not just
how quickly it took to connect, but how long it took for all the images and
objects on the page to load.
AlertSite is a leading provider of web performance measurement, systems
monitoring and security vulnerability scanning products and services that
ensure a customer's critical web-based services are always available and
running at peak performance. AlertSite's range of hosted Internet services
benefits all types and sizes of businesses and organizations.
More than 2,000 customers worldwide rely on AlertSite to understand and
enhance the end-user web experience. Founded in 1998, AlertSite is based in
Coconut Creek, FL. http://www.alertsite.com.
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