If according to some predictions 114 million customers are planning to make their Christmas purchases online. This means that websites, such as e-shops or vacation planners will need to be able to handle the crowd. Let's "Browse by Aggregated Industry" tags on Mon.itor.Us Benchmarks.
Hospitality has been tagged 285 different times, which makes it very popular. Hospitality Aggregated Report.
About 250 companies websites are now listed as engaged in different tourism areas, including hotel reservation, restaurants, travel agencies, tour operators, airlines, B&B booking sites, national tourism boards, entertainment sites, tourism and travel magazines, etc. Average performance of the websites is around 418 milliseconds during week 45 (second week of November) with 79 companies' websites showing below average results diminishing figure gong down to 4234 milliseconds with http://www.opodo.co.uk/, following by 2895 milliseconds http://www.explore.co.uk/ and http://www.syriatourism.org/, then comes http://www.travelandleisure.com/ 2268 milliseconds and http://www.restaurant-guide.com/ 2020 milliseconds average site load time.
In week 46 (the third week on November) more companies (89) dropped below the average, with the average itself dropping to 438 milliseconds. http://www.opodo.co.uk/ is again the lowest, but improved by 45 points. Explore!, Syria Tourism Travel and Leisure and Restaurant guide follow the rest with the same sequence. http://www.clareflorist.co.uk/ http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/, http://www.tourism.lt/ jointed them showing over 2 seconds average load time.
In week 48 (the last week of November and start of December) still the same sites are in the bottom of list. http://www.restaurants.co.uk/ was even off for about half of the week, showing 50.35% uptime.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Hotel Reservation Sites Show Lower Uptime
Revisitng Mon.itor.Us Benhmarks one of the popular tags called Top Hotels Sites shows that http://www.hotels.com/ and http://www.hotels.it/ had been experiencing performance problems three weeks in a row.
For example http://www.hotels.com/ were 32 and 40 milliseconds slower (from US and EU locations respectively) in week 46, compared to week 45. Website load speed was improved in week 46 by 103 and 136 milliseconds respectively, but in week 48 it slowed down again by 90 and 58 milliseconds respectively. Uptime of http://www.hotels.com/ went down from 100% to 99.5% in week 47 and to 99.2% in week 48. About 11 hours off!
The diagnostics of the problem would help to find the reason and correct the situation.
On 28 November the monitoring report showed for example that the site was down from USA and Germany several times during the day. It was also quite slower Austria 5.6 - 6.5 seconds load time. See the chart below:

Mon.itor.Us also provides free visitor statistics counter. If calculating hourly traffic how much visitors has the site has been loosing during 11 hours downtime.
For example http://www.hotels.com/ were 32 and 40 milliseconds slower (from US and EU locations respectively) in week 46, compared to week 45. Website load speed was improved in week 46 by 103 and 136 milliseconds respectively, but in week 48 it slowed down again by 90 and 58 milliseconds respectively. Uptime of http://www.hotels.com/ went down from 100% to 99.5% in week 47 and to 99.2% in week 48. About 11 hours off!
The diagnostics of the problem would help to find the reason and correct the situation.
On 28 November the monitoring report showed for example that the site was down from USA and Germany several times during the day. It was also quite slower Austria 5.6 - 6.5 seconds load time. See the chart below:

Mon.itor.Us also provides free visitor statistics counter. If calculating hourly traffic how much visitors has the site has been loosing during 11 hours downtime.
Labels:
booking online,
hospitality,
hotels,
tourism,
travel
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