Bel20 websites suffer from poor performance

During the 2 March 2006 - 10 April 2006 period, WatchMouse tested the websites of the BEL 20 funds. Every 5 minutes, one of the test stations of WatchMouse retrieved the homepage of the site, without graphics, frames etc. This HTML page was expected to download within 8 seconds, without any errors. If that time was exceeded or if an error occurred, it was verified by one of the other test stations. If this station also established an error, it was counted as 'poor availability or not available'.

An uptime of 99.99% or higher is extremely desirable for high-profile companies and those that achieve high turnovers through their sites. Many companies stipulate an uptime of 99.9% as a minimum requirement in the Service Level Agreement with their IT department or provider. An uptime below 99% is usually regarded as unacceptable. In the table below these limits are indicated with colours.

You can also read the WatchMouse press release about this availability index on www.watchmouse.com

# Website Uptime percentage Downtime per month
1. Colruyt 99.95 22 minutes
2. Omega Pharma 99.95 22 minutes
3. Groep Brussel Lambert 99.95 22 minutes
4. Mobistar 99.91 40 minutes
5. Suez Lyonnaise 99.82 1 hour, 20 minutes
6. Fortis Bank 99.79 1 hour, 34 minutes
7. inbev 99.68 2 hours, 23 minutes
8. KBC Groep 99.65 2 hours, 36 minutes
9. Bekaert 99.37 4 hours, 41 minutes
10. Nationale Portefeuille Maatschappij 99.35 4 hours, 50 minutes
11. Belgacom 99.31 5 hours, 8 minutes
12. Umicore 99.17 6 hours, 11 minutes
13. Delhaize Group 98.98 7 hours, 35 minutes
14. UCB Group 98.84 8 hours, 38 minutes
15. Solvay S.A. 98.80 8 hours, 56 minutes
16. Agfa-Gevaert 96.59 1 day, 1 hour, 22 minutes
17. Dexia Belgium 96.25 1 day, 3 hours, 54 minutes
18. Barco 94.67 1 day, 15 hours, 39 minutes
19. Cofinimmo-Sicafi 94.34 1 day, 18 hours, 7 minutes

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