AlertSite Business Benchmarks

Use Business Benchmarks to compare your Web site performance to competitor sites and industry averages, or to compare your Web site performance to particular companies of interest in the following industries:

• Cell Phone Carriers
• Financial Services
• Healthcare
• Job Boards
• Online Aggregators
• Internet Retailer Top 50
• Shortening Tools
• Social Networking
• Technology

Report Generation

Business Benchmark reports are selected from the Reports section of your console.

From the Business Benchmarks Report page, make the following selections:

• Your configured device
• Business Type to compare your device to or All Business Types
• Benchmark Sites or, if you have the default All Business Types selected, the Index
• Report Type:
  • Detail Report
  • Hourly Summary Report
  • Daily Summary Report
• Display elements to include in the report
• Monitoring Locations (depends on device selected)
• Date Range (Yesterday is the most recent selectable date)

Depending on what you selected for Business Type, a different list of companies will be presented in the Benchmarks Sites dropdown. For example, if you wanted to compare just to the Financial Services industry, select Financial Services from the Business Type dropdown for companies specific to that industry, or Technology for a list of high tech companies to compare to, e.g.:

You can also select the industry Index.

Here's an example of a selection to compare our Yahoo test device with the Internet Retailer Top 50 Index selection Wal-Mart in a Daily Summary Report, including report details, for the last 7 days from all locations that the device is being monitored from.

After clicking the Create Report button:

The above view shows what you'd see without Report Details included. When Report Details is selected from the Include list, a line-by-line list of measurements for the time period requested is displayed for your device and for the Benchmark Site:

With this additional information, you can compare the following metrics:

• % Availability
• Total responses time
• DNS Lookup time
• Connect time
• Redirect time
• Time to first byte
• Content download time

For additional information about these measurements, see Performance Metrics.

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