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WebSitePulse 2020 Hurricane Season Web Performance and Uptime Report

Whenever hurricane season is mentioned in the U.S., usually refers to the Atlantic Hurricane Season, whose storms most commonly affect the North American continent. It is an ongoing event and officially ends on November 30. The areas covered include the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea.

The 2020 hurricane season started with a blast. It is the first one ever in which nine tropical storms formed before August and thirteen formed before September in the Atlantic basin alone. So far, the Atlantic hurricane season features a total of 14 tropical depressions, 13 tropical storms, four hurricanes, and one major hurricane. Since May 16, the 2020 hurricane season caused $13.760 billion in damage and 103 deaths (source: Wikipedia)

Unfortunately, the predictions say the worst of 2020 hurricane season likely still to come.

For the 15th consecutive year, WebSitePulse will provide free monitoring and notifications during the 2020 hurricane season to five of the most popular websites that present their users with real-time forecasts, emergency information, and donation opportunities in times of hurricanes, floods, and other natural or man-caused disasters.

The WebSitePulse Performance Reports will measure the websites' uptime and response time as the most critical metrics for the availability and the reliability of any web-based operation, crucial for the End Users' overall online experience. Measurements of web transactions will be made every 15 minutes, simultaneously from three different monitoring locations. In-depth analytical information is also collected and stored in the WebSitePulse system for future references.

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.

Daily Report for October 31, 2020See report for:


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 0.637 sec.

The Average Response time as measured from the US East Coast (Trumbull, CT) was: 0.684 sec.
The Average Response time as measured from the US West Coast (San Francisco, CA) was:0.763 sec.
The Average Response time as measured from the US Central was (Chicago, IL):0.463 sec.

The Best Response time measured from US East Coast (Trumbull, CT):0.221 sec.
The Best Response time measured from US West Coast (San Francisco, CA):0.360 sec.
The Best Response time measured from US Central was (Chicago, IL):0.209 sec.

The typical shopping transaction took the least time for nhc.noaa.gov visitors - 0.292 sec., while the visitors of weather.com had to be the most patient, as the shopping transaction there took in average of 0.913 sec.
Three of the monitored websites delivered above-the-average response times for their transactions, while two of them demonstrated below-the-average daily performance.

The daily Average Uptime for the entire Group was 100%.

All websites were available with no interruptions.

Report Highlights

No events of particular importance or possible negative impact on the online visitors' interaction with the Websites included into the 2020 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.

Please, scroll down for Detailed Reports and Charts provided by WebSitePulse:

Daily Response Times
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    nhc.noaa.gov     weather     redcross.org     floridadisaster.org     salvationarmy.org 

Average Response Times for October 31, 2020
#TargetTrumbullSan FranciscoChicagoAvg. resp. time
1nhc.noaa.gov0.2210.4470.2090.292
2redcross.org0.3900.3600.4340.395
3floridadisaster.org0.7511.0030.5930.782
4salvationarmy.org1.3590.7770.2650.800
5weather.com0.6991.2270.8120.913

Average Response Times September 01, 2020 - October 31, 2020
#TargetTrumbullSan FranciscoChicagoAvg. resp. time
1nhc.noaa.gov0.2870.4140.2750.326
2redcross.org0.4260.3760.3650.389
3salvationarmy.org0.9380.8770.2750.697
4floridadisaster.org0.5351.0610.6040.733
5weather.com0.9331.2081.0351.059



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, 2020
TargetHours
000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223
floridadisaster.org0.810.780.790.740.760.790.780.780.760.730.730.740.840.790.790.790.780.790.800.810.790.830.800.74
nhc.noaa.gov0.370.300.230.220.200.220.250.260.230.320.220.460.260.290.200.240.350.320.280.310.480.410.270.32
redcross.org0.370.370.340.440.240.370.290.300.470.430.470.510.440.370.430.380.390.380.380.420.420.420.440.42
salvationarmy.org0.900.890.450.480.840.970.470.860.460.850.990.870.870.870.860.870.400.860.880.860.880.840.881.11
weather1.770.841.380.560.720.681.130.740.640.841.160.970.991.390.730.710.550.810.911.150.740.840.780.88


Average response times by hour September 01, 2020 - October 31, 2020
TargetHours
000102030405060708091011121314151617181920212223
floridadisaster.org0.760.730.750.710.720.700.710.700.770.720.720.720.720.740.770.790.730.720.770.740.720.740.720.73
nhc.noaa.gov0.310.490.390.330.270.220.310.260.270.270.290.280.290.300.320.350.450.380.310.300.350.390.320.37
redcross.org0.390.360.360.430.350.370.360.380.400.390.390.400.390.380.400.390.380.400.400.400.410.420.400.38
salvationarmy.org0.700.640.650.560.600.690.830.780.810.800.750.710.700.660.660.630.650.750.830.650.800.630.620.63
weather1.091.101.040.961.000.970.981.030.931.121.060.981.040.960.990.991.001.061.111.111.291.261.201.13


Uptime

Uptime October 31, 2020
#TargetTrumbullSan FranciscoChicagoAvg. uptime
1salvationarmy.org100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
2floridadisaster.org100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
3redcross.org100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
4weather.com100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
5nhc.noaa.gov100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%

Uptime September 01, 2020 - October 31, 2020
#TargetTrumbullSan FranciscoChicagoAvg. uptime
1nhc.noaa.gov100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
2redcross.org100.000%100.000%100.000%100.000%
3weather.com100.000%99.996%100.000%99.999%
4floridadisaster.org99.985%99.982%99.988%99.985%
5salvationarmy.org99.986%99.983%99.976%99.981%

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:

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