WatchMouse and Domeny.pl join forces in the Polish market (2005-11-24)
Polish websites verified from the visitors' perspective
Kraków, Poland, 2005-11-08 -- WatchMouse and Domeny signed a
reseller and marketing agreement today, joining forces in bringing
site monitoring services to the Polish market.
Using the WatchMouse services, companies will instantly be aware of
upcoming and/or acute incidents related to its web sites of their
clients, and can, as a result, resolve problems in a short time frame.
The websites and their functionality are checked for availability,
speed, and conformance from different locations around the world, now
including Poland. Because the websites are checked in the same way
that visitors are experiencing them, incidents will be detected at an
early stage. Also, using WatchMouse's objective periodical reports, it
is possible for companies to see if the performance is in accordance
with the agreed service levels (SLAs).
WatchMouse extends its network of monitoring stations with a checkpoint
in Kraków, hosted by Domeny.pl. The total number of checkpoints is now 17.
Domeny.pl also provides the Polish language version of the WatchMouse site
and local customer care.
Stan P. van de Burgt, CEO of WatchMouse: "I'm very happy with
this deal. The Polish e-service industry is obviously booming, and
this results in higher awareness of the issues involved with running
web applications that should be available around the clock."
Arkadiusz Szczurowski, CEO of Domeny.pl "We know that WatchMouse products
are one of the best in the World. So we decided to co-operate
with the company, and we take pride in it. We expect this
co-operation to bring both WatchMouse and our business a lot of
advantages and satisfaction. Domeny.pl wants to lead WatchMouse
monitoring service on Polish market and offer it for business
leaders. This will be a great innovation in Poland and also
success. In our view, site monitoring is important, because
stability, performance, and high availability of the web sites is
one of the basic value in all branches of business, both
e-business and other business."
"There are about 4 million companies in Poland. We want to direct
the offer to the most important on Polish market. We think that
the WatchMouse service is a must-have for about 5-10 percent of all
business owners."
About Domeny.pl
Domeny.pl was founded in 1997 and is now providing Internet
services to about 10.000 business customers with products ranging from
Internet domains and hosting services (virtual and dedicated servers), SSL
certificates and other products dealing with internet security.
The company's slogan is: We're Trusted by the Best.
Among its clients are the biggest and the best known Polish and
international companies.
About WatchMouse
Companies can easily monitor their own Internet sites using
WatchMouse's monitoring service. WatchMouse has been monitoring
Internet sites and e-commerce applications for companies
throughout the world since 2002. WatchMouse has thousands of
customers in more than 70 countries. The services supplied by
WatchMouse are available in nine languages, and analyses are
performed from various locations and over numerous networks,
using a world-wide monitoring network.
In October 2005, WatchMouse was voted a Deloitte Rising Star in the
Netherlands, as part of the Fast 50 awards the list of the 50
fastest growing technology companies.
Social networking sites slow and inaccessible (2008-01-10)
WatchMouse research shows Facebook performance poorest of all
The Netherlands, January 10, 2008 – Popular social networking sites fail to deliver to their users, according to WatchMouse. Research from the leading website monitoring company has shown that web 2.0 sites often are slow to open or fail to load properly. WatchMouse monitored the time it took the social networking sites, listed on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites), to load. The results showed that the worst for availability is the immensely popular Facebook.
Other well known culprits include Twitter, last.fm, Windows Live Spaces, Friendster and del.icio.us. Of the 104 sites monitored, 51 show a Site Performance Index (SPI) of 1000 or more, making them very slow in load time. A remarkable outcome, seeing as most sites heavily use Ajax, which should lead to quicker load times since the dynamics of the site do not load immediately. Using Ajax should help websites increase interactivity, speed, functionality and usability by exchanging small amounts of data with the server so the entire webpage does not need loading fully every time someone performs an action on a page.
Of the monitored social networking sites, Faceparty performed the best - with an SPI of 303 - meaning users can access the site most frequently and in the fastest time. Looking at the results, most sites still have a lot to work on if they want their users to keep returning to their site. Research has shown that most web users are very impatient and will wait no longer than four seconds for a webpage to load.
“It is interesting to see that popular networking sites turn out to have very bad performance,” said Mark Pors, CTO at Watchmouse. “It is surprising they still have such a big fan base when they serve their users so badly. Using Ajax technology, they should be able to work more effectively. For now the sites will need to do a lot of work to remain popular and improve their performance.”
A complete overview of the monitoring results of the WatchMouse Site Availability Index, listing all the sites monitored, can be found on http://www.watchmouse.com/SPI/2008/performance_social_networking_sites.php
WatchMouse expands Website Monitoring Infrastructure to 35 Global Monitoring Stations (2008-09-01)
In order to meet customer demand, WatchMouse is proud to announce the expansion of its global infrastructure with another eight monitoring stations being deployed over the past two months. The new stations are in: India, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland and the USA. WatchMouse now offers 25 monitoring stations in major European and North American cities, with a further 10 stations spread across Africa, the Middle East, South America and Oceania.
WatchMouse's extensive infrastructure provides the means to accurately monitor sites and web applications from the perspective of users based in different global locations. Such multi-point monitoring is imperative as site performance varies greatly depending on the location of the user (e.g. customers in the USA might quickly access a site, while for users in Germany, the same site has errors or a long load time). WatchMouse CTO, Mark Pors explains that "Even if your site works well from your headquarters, customers may still have trouble reaching it from different external locations. As a slow or faulty site can frustrate users, damage the reputation of a company and result in lost sales, it is essential to monitor from more than one point."
As the vast majority of businesses are aware of the need for global performance monitoring, WatchMouse was surprised to find global performance issues on the sites of some major international organizations, including the social networking site Facebook. In recent research WatchMouse found that facebook.com performs well in the USA but showed serious user issues from many other locations.
WatchMouse’s market leading infrastructure can help international organizations identify performance issues. Equally, WatchMouse supports clients who require performance monitoring within a particular region by allowing monitoring to be restricted to a sub-set of monitoring stations. This feature is useful for companies that only trade within a large country (e.g. USA) or region (e.g. Europe) but still require comprehensive monitoring within their area of operation.
About WatchMouse
WatchMouse provides global performance monitoring to thousands of customers in over 70 countries. In addition to a market leading infrastructure, WatchMouse offers automated alerting and an advanced user interface for complete self-management of all monitoring features and subscription details.
