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Gomez Finds Hillary Clinton’s Web Site Falters as Democratic
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Latest Gomez, Inc. home page performance benchmarks of 2008 Democratic presidential candidates finds others handle debate night without adverse performance impact
LEXINGTON, Mass., April 27, 2007 - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign web site was the only one of the Democratic candidates' sites to register a marked decrease in performance during last night's candidates' debate at South Carolina State University, according to the latest campaign home page performance benchmark by Gomez, Inc., a web experience management company.
Gomez found that the Clinton campaign site's home page response time was nearly three-times slower during the debate hours than it had been on average during the four days leading up to the debate Thursday evening. Prior to the debate, Clinton's average home page response time was slightly under two seconds, second fastest to Barack Obama's average home page response time of slightly less than 1.5 seconds. John Edwards' home page trailed the pack of Democratic candidates, with average response time of more than 11 seconds during the week, and over 12 seconds during the debate.
Web sites of the other Democratic candidates* who participated in the Thursday night debate in Orangeburg, South Carolina, did not show significant performance degradation, nor did MSNBC.com, which streamed the 90-minute debate live online. Several candidates' sites actually recorded faster response times during the debate period.
Throughout the duration of the 2008 presidential campaigns, Gomez will monitor and report on the performance of the 2008 presidential candidates' web sites -- and the resulting impact experienced by voters. Gomez announced its inaugural Campaign 2008 Web Site Performance Benchmark on April 11.
"We speculate that the infrastructure of Clinton's web site may not be up to handling a major spike in visitors, which a campaign front-runner must expect and be able to accommodate," said William Agush, Gomez vice president of marketing. "They risk creating a negative user experience - and that could have negative consequences going forward."
About Gomez
Gomez is the leading provider of on-demand web application experience management solutions, helping the world's top businesses ensure quality web experiences for their customers. Gomez ExperienceFirstTM applications are used by more than 750 companies worldwide, including eight of the top 10 most visited sites, six of the top 10 retailers, nine of the top 10 financial services firms, five of the top 10 social networking companies, and four of the top 10 industrial companies. Founded in 1997, Gomez provides the industry's only complete solution for managing web application experience from development through deployment and the entire application life cycle, featuring active monitoring, competitive benchmarking, and more than 14,000 data sources worldwide. Gomez is Network Computing magazine's "Editor's Choice" for best Internet performance monitoring service. For more information, please visit www.gomez.com or de.gomez.com for information in German.
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