Fastest, most reliable news searches
Internet performance tracking company Keynote has creating a News Media Index to track the speed and reliability of leading news sites. The index measures the complete end-to-end process of going to a news site, selecting a particular news-related category, searching for and selecting an article.
Here are the first findings:
CBSNews.com, CNBC.com and BBC.com were tops in speed; CNN.com, CNBC.com and NBC.com got the highest marks for reliability.
The overall average speed for completing this transaction was 8.14 seconds. While the top site for performance, CBSNews.com, delivered the entire experience in less than 5.0 seconds, the slowest site, ChicagoTribune.com, averaged over 14.0 seconds. During the week, a few sites took as long as 25.8 seconds, but most measurements fell between 4.0 and 18.0 seconds.The transaction reliability of the measured sites also varied greatly. While the index average for reliability was a not so terrific 97.12%, the difference between the most reliable and least reliable sites was a significant 6.4% (99.91% for CNN.com vs. 93.51% for WashingtonPost.com). Reliability measurements also showed a greater degree of variation by site and by time. This somewhat erratic behavior indicates that the time of day is likely to have a significant impact on a user’s chance of enjoying a smooth and successful completion of their desired task.
Here are the detailed charts. More information on the methodology can be found here.
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