<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420595741239972742</id><updated>2011-12-05T01:35:02.525-08:00</updated><category term='free external monitoring'/><category term='tourisn'/><category term='retail'/><category term='mon.itor.us'/><category term='technology'/><category term='performance'/><category term='alerts'/><category term='website monitoring'/><category term='uptime'/><title type='text'>Industry Benchmarks</title><subtitle type='html'>Discussions about different countries' and industries' website uptime, availability and performance, ranking, industry research, country uptime statistics.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6420595741239972742/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Gayane Dallakyan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cK-ieP3gtuk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAA4E/VvktZZ4EsGY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420595741239972742.post-899164540112051231</id><published>2008-07-28T04:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T16:14:20.384-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uptime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='performance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mon.itor.us'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free external monitoring'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website monitoring'/><title type='text'>49% of websites in Mon.itor.Us indices are tagged for USA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/"&gt;Mon.itor.Us indices&lt;/a&gt; grows to be quite a comprehensive information source to learn about &lt;a href="http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/2008/04/media-industry-sites-show-slowest-page.html"&gt;industries&lt;/a&gt; using website monitoring, as well as the countries to target.  Based on the Browse by Countries section of tag clouds, we can see which country's websites are more benchmarked.  Since hundreds of thousands of websites are being monitored, tagged and benchmarked, it is interesting to know that the following 5 countries cover almost 90% of the cases:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US websites are 49%, followed by United Kingdom 16%, Italy 13%, Germany 12% and France 10%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SI3XlVhOp9I/AAAAAAAAALU/Ha7o6yPVKEk/s1600-h/Countries.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SI3XlVhOp9I/AAAAAAAAALU/Ha7o6yPVKEk/s400/Countries.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228071778878662610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Here are some interesting benchmarks created by Mon.itor.Us community and tagged "United States":&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/International%20Airlines/2008/30.html"&gt;Top Airline Companies in The USA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Apparel/2008/30.html"&gt;Retail stores selling apparel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/E-Banking/2008/30.html"&gt;Top Banks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/E-Brokerage/2008/30.html"&gt;E-brokerage Companies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/US%20Governement/2008/30.html"&gt;Top US Government Websites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Telecom/2008/30.html"&gt;Benchmark of competing telecom sites&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Electronics%20Stores%20in%20the%20US/2008/30.html"&gt;Famous electronic stores in the US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Retial%20Stores%20for%20Music%20and/2008/30.html"&gt;Music and Book Stores&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/New%20Agnecies/2008/30.html"&gt;On-line news and Media Agencies&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Weekly%20Benchmark1/2008/30.html"&gt;Retail Weekly Benchmark&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6420595741239972742-899164540112051231?l=industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/feeds/899164540112051231/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6420595741239972742&amp;postID=899164540112051231' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6420595741239972742/posts/default/899164540112051231'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6420595741239972742/posts/default/899164540112051231'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/2008/07/usa-is-most-popular-country-in.html' title='49% of websites in Mon.itor.Us indices are tagged for USA'/><author><name>Gayane Dallakyan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cK-ieP3gtuk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAA4E/VvktZZ4EsGY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SI3XlVhOp9I/AAAAAAAAALU/Ha7o6yPVKEk/s72-c/Countries.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6420595741239972742.post-552836286893889697</id><published>2008-04-02T07:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-12-09T16:14:20.962-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uptime'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='performance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tourisn'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='technology'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='retail'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alerts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='website monitoring'/><title type='text'>Media Industry Sites Show Slowest Average Page Load and Lowest Average Uptime Among Most Popular in Mon.itor.Us</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEfq9BGfS4I/AAAAAAAAAKY/UyBzDvIm67I/s1600-h/untitled2.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEfq9BGfS4I/AAAAAAAAAKY/UyBzDvIm67I/s400/untitled2.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208389828065840002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Digging into &lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/"&gt;Mon.itor.Us Benchmarks&lt;/a&gt; to find website monitoring usage stats per industry.  These are not statistically correct figures, but being based on users of Benchmark generator module in Mon.itor.Us community (around 25,000 users and 98,000 sites) at Week 22.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to Industry Aggregated reports the popular 4 industries are Hospitality (30%) Technology (19%) Retail (18%) and Media (11%).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEfmMgCSuZI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/ndr7MCn10CM/s1600-h/untitled.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 423px; height: 120px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEfmMgCSuZI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/ndr7MCn10CM/s400/untitled.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208384596509637010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Hospitality/2008/22.html"&gt;Hospitality&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;432 websites&lt;/span&gt;. Average performance figure is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;388 milliseconds&lt;/span&gt;, slowest is Opodo.co.uk loading in 4320 milliseconds during week 22.  Travel.aol.com was fastest - 45 milliseconds in average.  432 websites' &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;average uptime was 96.88%&lt;/span&gt;, Elite International Travel being available only 17.39% during one week and 194 companies showing 100% availability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Technology/2008/22.html"&gt;Technology&lt;/a&gt; is the second with &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;265 websites&lt;/span&gt; average page load speed of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;363 milliseconds&lt;/span&gt;.  Google.ru shows the quickest load time (56 milliseconds) and pse.simmence.at is the slowest 1629 milliseconds.  Industry average uptime was great!  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;99.86%&lt;/span&gt; with even a low minimum availability of 66.76% for liquidweb.com and 170 websites having 100% uptime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEf_CtV9feI/AAAAAAAAALA/FBDN8keyO5M/s1600-h/AvupTime.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEf_CtV9feI/AAAAAAAAALA/FBDN8keyO5M/s400/AvupTime.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208411916073795042" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Retail/2008/22.html"&gt;Retail&lt;/a&gt; is the third with a small difference from technology representing &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;252 websites.&lt;/span&gt;  Slowest load time is recorded 2462 milliseconds for topjewelshops.com, and quickest is jcpenny.com loading in 52 milliseconds.  The average is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;368 milliseconds.&lt;/span&gt;  The lowest availability recorded 66.62% was for shop.org. 122 websites were up 100% of the time. Industry average is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;98.44%. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the last &lt;a href="http://indices.mon.itor.us/index/Media/2008/22.html"&gt;Media&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;161 websites&lt;/span&gt; operate &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;388 milliseconds&lt;/span&gt; average speed,  with the slowest armenianow.com at 3080 milliseconds and the quickest  cbsnews.com at 53 milliseconds load speed. Industry average availability is &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;91.73%&lt;/span&gt; with a min. 11.25% Armenia Tourism and 97 websites being available 100%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEf9yG6tagI/AAAAAAAAAK4/AYri00ZMpeI/s1600-h/AvLoad+Time.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 381px; height: 227px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEf9yG6tagI/AAAAAAAAAK4/AYri00ZMpeI/s400/AvLoad+Time.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5208410531369413122" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The slowest average page load speed was recorded for the Tourism and Hospitality sector followed by Media and Retail. Technology sector websites show the best results for both load speed and availability.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6420595741239972742-552836286893889697?l=industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/feeds/552836286893889697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=6420595741239972742&amp;postID=552836286893889697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6420595741239972742/posts/default/552836286893889697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6420595741239972742/posts/default/552836286893889697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://industry-benchmarks.blogspot.com/2008/04/media-industry-sites-show-slowest-page.html' title='Media Industry Sites Show Slowest Average Page Load and Lowest Average Uptime Among Most Popular in Mon.itor.Us'/><author><name>Gayane Dallakyan</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='//lh3.googleusercontent.com/-cK-ieP3gtuk/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAA4E/VvktZZ4EsGY/s512-c/photo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ayaF_AL0Y3c/SEfq9BGfS4I/AAAAAAAAAKY/UyBzDvIm67I/s72-c/untitled2.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
