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Overall response time results (sidebar)
The following table shows a snapshot of our overall Notes.net response time results (in seconds). Notice that there appears to be a rough correlation between server downtime and the average overall site response time. The results show the probe response time according to the different days of the week.
Week beginning...
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Weekend
2/01/99
5.04/3.54*
2.42*
2.71*
2/08/99
2.81*
2.42*
2.42*
about.html: 2.14*
2.48*
2.48*
2/15/99
8.96* (two servers down, half-day)
2.55*
2.77*
4.41*
4.49*
8.77* (two servers down)
2/22/99
8.77* (two servers down)
8.96* (two servers down)
2.63*
cont*
4.19* (one server down, plus one server down half-day)
cont.*
3/01/99
4.19*
cont.*
2.74*
5.64* (two servers down)
4.31* (one server down)
cont.*
3/08/99
2.44*
3.56*
2.24*
cont.*
* Represents best case -- retrieving first object only.