FastWebRace - The Web’s Biggest Loser

My colleagues at Keynote are running a contest called the Fast Web Race (www.fastwebrace.com) – the concept is similar to the TV program "The Biggest Loser", except for the Web. Identify Web sites that could lose the most weight, and emerge lighter, leaner, and much faster! Keynote employees are not eligible for the contest, but I put together this example of a submission using my personal web site.

First, you can use any web site, but preferably one that you are involved with, because one of the prizes is a free Web performance optimization consultation with our performance gurus. So, I picked my personal web site: Indian Bento (www.indianbento.com), so you can follow these quick 6 steps to submit your entry:

(1) First, the web site should have a target page or transaction (a multi-step/page scenario) that could become leaner and faster. Here's both the home page and a transaction:

 

The Web transaction I would like to improve is the “Order Indian Bento boxes for delivery”. The transaction starts at the home page, and ends with an online order being processed by a mobile phone:

Next, we need a common language for the contest entries to measure the responsiveness of this web site – so while there are products like Microsoft VRTA I could use – the contest organizers wanted everyone to use a single tool - KITE (http://kite.keynote.com). Even if you’re not familiar with KITE, it’s really easy to record such a transaction. Here’s what you do:

(2) Download KITE (Windows only) from http://kite.keynote.com/download-center.php

(3) Watch the 2 minute video that shows how to register and create a new account:

 

(4) Launch KITE, and press the Record button.

 

(5) This launches an embedded IE browser, and I just clicked my way through my web site. At the end of the recording, I save the resulting test script file to my desktop. This is the file you can submit to Keynote later.

(6) Playback the test script by clicking on the "Play" button, and do an "Instant Test", so you can measure the site from 5 different cities. The test script stores the results of every test run from your desktop, so you can submit that script later.

(7) Go to http://www.fastwebrace.com and fill in the submission form.

That’s it, you’re done!

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