Compuware Corp. said that Compuware Gomez performance benchmarks are the first in the industry to measure website home page and transaction performance across Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. Measuring across multiple real browsers provides companies with the most comprehensive website performance and end-user experience data.

New browsers and browser versions continue to proliferate in the market, each offering different performance characteristics based on factors including the way they process JavaScript and CSS, load source code and third-party images, and the number of parallel network connections they open. Gomez performance data shows significant load time differences among the most popular browsers. These differences can have a significant impact on how end-users experience a website, including poorly performing pages, pages that don’t display properly, or failed transactions.

“It’s no longer sufficient to monitor and test web applications from one browser, so we’ve expanded our website performance benchmarks to use multiple real browser agents, providing companies with the most comprehensive data showing how customers experience their websites.” said Jonathan Ranger, Gomez Benchmarks practice director at Compuware. “We also rank the website performance results of our benchmarks published on Gomez.com across multiple commercial browsers, giving a greater level of detail and accuracy.”

Gomez Benchmarks rank the web and mobile performance of companies across three key metrics—response time, availability, and consistency—and are used by organizations to compare and track performance against competitors and market leaders; baseline and track performance over time; and as key indicators of success for business and IT site owners.

 

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http://www.gomez.com/compuware-creates-industry-first-web-performance-benchmarks-using-real-commercial-browsers/