Hurricane Season Report 2007

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WebSitePulse 2007 Hurricane Season Web Performance and Uptime Report

WebSitePulse provided free monitoring and notifications to some of the most popular websites during the 2005 and 2006 Hurricane Seasons. The free service was part of our Company contribution to the relief efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma (see our Press Release for more details).

This year WebSitePulse decided to continue the monitoring of the key websites providing real-time details, forecasts, emergency information, and donation opportunities in times of hurricanes, floods, and other natural or man-caused disasters. As the public Web Performance Reports became part of WebSitePulse contribution to the online community, data from the continuous, multiple-points measurements of some of the most used Hurricane- and disaster-related websites will be displayed on a daily basis during the most active time of the Season - August 6th and October 31st, 2007. The Reports reflect the most common performance criteria: response time and availability - but in-debt analytical information is also collected and stored in the WebSitePulse system for future references.

An RSS feed from the daily Reports is added for more convenience for those interested in the performance of the monitored websites.

Daily Report for October 31, 2007

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WebSitePulse reports the following results from web performance measurement of the Hurricane- and disaster-related websites:

The daily Average Response time from all monitored websites was 0.91 sec.

The Average Response time as measured from the US East Coast (Trumbull, CT) was:	0.737 sec.
The Average Response time as measured from the US West Coast (San Francisco, CA) was:	1.153 sec.
The Average Response time as measured from US Central (Chicago, IL) was:	0.841 sec.

The Best Response time measured from the US East Coast was:	0.296 sec.
The Best Response time measured from the US West Coast was:	0.718 sec.
The Best Response time measured from US Central:	0.370 sec.

The typical page loading took the least time for floridadisaster.org visitors - 0.515 sec., while the visitors of salvationarmy.org had to be the most patient, as the page loading there took in average of 2.074 sec.
One monitored website delivered above-the-average response times for its web pages, while four of them demonstrated below-the-average daily performance.

The daily average uptime for the entire Group was 99.99%.

The Average Uptime as measured from the US East Coast (Trumbull, CT) was:	100.00%
The Average Uptime as measured from the US West Coast (San Francisco, CA) was:	100.00%
The Average Uptime as measured from US Central (Chicago, IL) was:	99.96%

Four websites were available with no interruptions - 100%.
Four websites' availability was above the average, while one site dragged the average down with below-the-average availability.

Report Highlights

No events of particular importance or possible negative impact on the online visitors' interaction with the Websites included into the 2007 Hurricane Season Report were detected during the reported period, and according to WebSitePulse, the Group delivered the expected levels of End-User experience and Customer satisfaction.

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Daily Response Times

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nhc.noaa.gov	weather	redcross.org	floridadisaster.org	salvationarmy.org

Average Response Times for October 31, 2007

#	Target	Trumbull	San Francisco	Chicago	Avg. resp. time
1	floridadisaster.org	0.296	0.718	0.532	0.515
2	weather.com	0.405	0.849	0.370	0.541
3	nhc.noaa.gov	0.534	0.886	0.442	0.621
4	redcross.org	0.722	1.033	0.647	0.801
5	salvationarmy.org	1.729	2.278	2.216	2.074

Average Response Times August 05, 2007 - October 31, 2007

#	Target	Trumbull	San Francisco	Chicago	Avg. resp. time
1	weather.com	0.525	0.782	0.477	0.595
2	floridadisaster.org	0.499	0.836	0.579	0.638
3	nhc.noaa.gov	0.788	0.887	0.515	0.730
4	redcross.org	0.905	1.293	1.008	1.069
5	salvationarmy.org	1.493	3.236	2.037	2.255

Hourly Average Response Times
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individual site response times	monitored group average response times

Average response times by hour for October 31, 2007

Target	Hours
Target	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
floridadisaster.org	0.96	0.54	0.39	0.38	0.35	0.46	0.42	0.48	0.49	0.48	1.06	0.52	0.50	0.84	0.44	0.41	0.53	0.41	0.45	0.59	0.44	0.40	0.46	0.38
nhc.noaa.gov	0.67	0.88	0.59	0.51	0.70	0.75	0.55	1.02	0.60	0.42	0.62	0.57	0.58	0.72	0.75	0.46	0.50	0.53	0.51	0.53	0.58	0.51	0.71	0.62
redcross.org	0.65	0.43	3.12	3.70	1.18	0.57	0.42	0.46	0.41	0.42	0.35	0.84	2.14	0.37	0.82	0.32	0.40	0.29	0.34	0.41	0.36	0.52	0.36	0.34
salvationarmy.org	2.10	1.85	1.72	1.29	1.51	1.30	1.63	1.47	1.39	1.42	4.10	1.66	1.82	1.35	1.39	1.36	2.25	3.00	1.29	2.05	6.71	3.36	2.46	1.30
weather	1.38	0.67	0.50	0.45	0.93	0.47	0.45	0.49	0.53	0.51	0.44	0.44	0.43	0.49	0.46	0.49	0.50	0.58	0.42	0.60	0.44	0.43	0.44	0.45

Average response times by hour August 05, 2007 - October 31, 2007

Target	Hours
Target	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23
floridadisaster.org	0.64	0.64	0.71	0.67	0.73	0.63	0.71	0.84	1.01	0.99	0.81	0.78	0.50	0.53	0.53	0.50	0.49	0.47	0.47	0.49	0.46	0.44	0.58	0.68
nhc.noaa.gov	0.75	0.66	0.68	0.65	0.68	0.69	0.69	0.81	0.73	0.81	0.72	0.75	0.90	0.79	0.79	0.77	0.80	0.72	0.78	0.66	0.67	0.65	0.67	0.69
redcross.org	1.21	0.96	1.08	1.15	0.83	1.24	1.09	1.29	1.12	0.92	1.12	1.13	0.98	1.13	1.09	1.15	0.97	0.99	1.15	0.87	1.03	0.97	1.12	1.04
salvationarmy.org	2.17	2.17	2.02	1.83	2.22	1.98	2.15	2.18	2.20	2.55	2.63	2.55	2.26	2.20	2.30	2.30	2.31	2.02	2.19	2.30	2.92	2.37	2.11	2.23
weather	0.62	0.61	0.77	0.54	0.63	0.52	0.52	0.59	0.54	0.64	0.55	0.64	0.57	0.57	0.58	0.56	0.62	0.58	0.55	0.56	0.58	0.66	0.60	0.66

Uptime

Uptime October 31, 2007

#	Target	Trumbull	San Francisco	Chicago	Avg. uptime
1	floridadisaster.org	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%
2	nhc.noaa.gov	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%
3	weather.com	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%
4	salvationarmy.org	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%	100.000%
5	redcross.org	100.000%	100.000%	99.790%	99.930%

Uptime August 05, 2007 - October 31, 2007

#	Target	Trumbull	San Francisco	Chicago	Avg. uptime
1	nhc.noaa.gov	99.997%	100.000%	99.997%	99.998%
2	redcross.org	99.981%	99.987%	99.980%	99.982%
3	weather.com	99.981%	99.996%	99.967%	99.981%
4	salvationarmy.org	99.805%	99.819%	99.830%	99.818%
5	floridadisaster.org	99.802%	99.804%	99.843%	99.816%

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 takes place daily, every 15 minutes during the entire Hurricane season. The WebSitePulse website monitoring service is 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
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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:

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

WebSitePulse 2007 Hurricane Season Web Performance and Uptime Report

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