Ananova leads the way in news site performance study; Independent and BBC sites perform well but only CNN has 100% availability during four-week study.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 April 2003-Ananova: Ananova leads the way in news site performance study; Independent and BBC sites perform well but only CNN has 100 availability during four-week study(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04142003 Parallel Ltd, the UK-based IT service management company has released findings from a four-week study into the performance of 16 news sites during the recent conflict in Iraq.

Sites have been monitored from 8:00am on Friday 14th March to 8:00am on Friday 11th April using Parallel's Nexus Watch service. Every ten minutes two separate servers have logged on to the sites using separate tier-one ISPs. Key performance indicators measured have been the availability of the site and the size of the page downloaded. Only CNN's...