Sterling, VA., January 15, 2008 - NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE:NSR) announced today that it has acquired San Diego, CA-based Webmetrics, a leading provider of web and network performance testing, monitoring and measurement services, in an all-cash transaction.

Webmetrics enables companies to maximize the profitability of web-based applications by monitoring and testing complex web infrastructure to ensure its availability, integrity and performance reliability.. [More]

In times of crisis, the sites of Australia's Emergency Services aren't available

March 4 2008 – With Bushfires in WA’s Goldfields region & floods in Mackay, Australia’s emergency services are needed more than ever but many are unreachable.

WatchMouse, a leader in website performance monitoring, tested the sites belonging to Australian Emergency Services organisations for errors, availability & performance. Only one of the 26 monitored sites was found to have ‘good’ uptime while seven sites had ‘serious user issues’. Another disturbing finding was that during the Mackay floods on the 15th of. [More]

Agentrics selects Webmetrics to provide performance monitoring for retail industry's largest collaboration platform

San Diego - December 11, 2007 - Webmetrics, a leading provider of web performance monitoring solutions, today announced that Agentrics, a leading solution provider to the world’s largest retailers and their suppliers, has selected its GlobalWatch Services to provide performance monitoring for Agentrics’ on-demand Retail Information and Collaboration Solutions. Agentrics will utilize Webmetrics’ GlobalWatch Services to continually test and measure the availability and performance of its technology platform solutions, which are used to streamline collaborative supply chain processes between 50 of the world’s largest retailers and more than 80,000 of their suppliers.. [More]

WatchMouse finds poor site performance for some SMI listed companies - Richemont & Zurich Financial found to be the worst.

Utrecht, the Netherlands, 20 May 2008 - WatchMouse, a leader in website performance monitoring, tested the sites belonging to Switzerland’s SMI listed companies for errors, availability and performance. Three of the 20 monitored sites were found to have ‘serious user issues’. These sites belong to Baloise, Zurich Financial and Richemont. Zurich Financial and Richemont’s sites were also amongst six SMI sites found to have an uptime well below the accepted industry standard.. [More]

Social networks uptime should improve

Amsterdam - April 29, 2008 - Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company, today reported that some social networks experience serious downtime and are not available for visitors. Four of the twenty two social networks had an uptime of 99.9 percent which is good. Eleven had an uptime of 100 percent which is excellent. The social network which was not available for more than 20 hours during the last 30 days is Blackplanet.com. This social network had an uptime of 97.2 percent.. [More]

DéjàNotes annotates Web pages with rich-media 'sticky notes,' adding an extra layer of functionality to performance monitoring scripts

COCONUT CREEK, April 23, 2008 - Today Webmasters, testing and QA engineers, marketers, CIOs, and other C-level managers have a versatile new way to communicate: with DéjàNotes from AlertSite®. This clever new tool gives DéjàClick™ users the convenient ability to append comments, images, links, and even videos onto any portion of any Web page appearing in a script recorded by AlertSite's Business Transaction Monitor with DéjàClick.. [More]

Nedstat and WatchMouse start partnership

Amsterdam, 14 April 2008 – Nedstat and WatchMouse announce a strategic partnership that brings together online marketing intelligence and technical performance. The new integration allows marketeers and technical managers to always have the same real-time view of the technical status of their online business activities. This makes it possible to react instantly when for instance decreasing online business has a technical cause.. [More]