What is the Keynote Credit Card Web Transaction Performance Index, and how is it measured?
The Keynote Credit Card Web Transaction Performance Index measures the performance and availability of going to a selected credit card site and logging in to conduct the appropriate intended actions and checking or signing out. All measurements are taken from the ten largest U.S. metropolitan areas (Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.) on high-speed links attached to key points on the largest U.S. Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbones. The sites that appear in the Index were selected based on publicly available information published for the most commonly visited credit card account access Web sites from major industry resources and internal research data. The published Index is based on measurements taken every hour between the hours of 8am and midnight Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. Keynote subscribers receive 24/7 measurement components (DNS lookup time, TCP connect round-trip time, etc.) for al
