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Description
The script downloads the www.coremetrics.com top page 10 times in sequence. There are fixed delays between each download to force the HTTP connection(s) to close. The runs were made with detailed timing data activated so that page download times would be revealed. The information is updated in real time; the data always shows the information for the last 24 hours.

Data Available
The data given in the table provides access to:

• Time. The hour during which the script was run.
• Test Summary. The standard eValid test summary report generated by the run.
• Event Log. The HTML version of the complete eValid Event Log for the run.
• Performance Chart. The performance chart shows the results of the sequence of runs. Each "stack chart" in the display itemizes the download behavior in the corresponding page retrieval. [Hint: Hover your mouse over the chart columns to view the detailed data.]
• Note: Viewing of chart Applet requires the Sun JRE 1.5 environment enabled in the browser.

Comments
This popular website top page is very well organized and very balanced. The 30+ components of the page are about equal-sized, and this results in quite uniform page load times in the 5-8 second range. This speed is very good for end-user resonse times. From time to time we observe anomalies that probably are due to site maintenance (realtime updates) and/or possible WWW glitches, but in most cases the timings show a consistent, quick clean page.

Script
Here is the eValid script that was used to produce the data above.

# Recording by eValid V9 
# Recording made on: Microsoft Windows XP (IE 6.0)

ProjectID "Coremetrics"
GroupID "Monitor1"
TestID "coremetrics"
LogID "AUTO"
ScreenSize 1024 768
FontSize 0

InitLink "http://www.coremetrics.com/"
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""
Delay 5000
GotoLink 0 "http://www.coremetrics.com/" ""

# End of script.