Grid Computing News : Peer Network Tests 'Real World' Site Performance

The new e-commerce site you launched looks great and you got great comments from beta testers. So why isn't it getting the traffic you expected. There are many Web site performance measurement tools, but they don't all measure the so-called "last mile" or performance at specific endpoints, i.e. Enter Gomez, which has quietly grown its peer network measurement solution to over 40,000 users worldwide. Like other Web performance companies, Gomez has a distributed set of test nodes that measure Internet backbone performance, but the company said its additional Gomez Peer Community is the only global Web site monitoring network made up of real online users.... read more