Earlier this year, Keynote announced the addition of User Experience metrics to our web monitoring products. These metrics allow you to broaden the conversation about web performance. In addition to seeing the performance of the "bits and bytes" going over the wire, you can now also understand how quickly your end users get to the "clicks and pics" on your site.
We thought it would be fun to take a look at how some of these metrics compare across sites and industries. Did you know that it takes about 1.5 seconds longer to interact with most of the content on news sites than on social networking sites? Or that it takes over twice as long to load the home page on Foursquare than Twitter? These are some of the factoids included in the following infographic:
To provide a little bit more color on Steve's question, these numbers were averages over a one-month period for measurements that make up Keynote's home-page indices. Measurements were taken every 15 minutes from Keynote's global agent network. Agent locations varied depending on the index (for example, measurements for the Swedish index were taken from a group of agents in Scandinavia).
Posted by: Dan Galatin | November 02, 2012 at 03:30 PM
Thanks Steve! These numbers are generated from synthetic measurements included in Keynote Performance Indices.
Posted by: Dan Galatin | October 31, 2012 at 01:50 PM
It's definitely important to track these user experience metrics. How were these numbers generated? Was it from real users or synthetic? If synthetic, what was the setup?
Great article.
Posted by: Steve Souders | October 31, 2012 at 10:23 AM