VirtualTourist.com Selects Gomez to Enhance the Web Experience of its Online Travel Community
Lexington, Massachusetts — May 14, 2008 — Gomez, Inc., a leading provider of web experience management services, today announced that VirtualTourist.com has chosen to deploy the Gomez® ExperienceFirst℠ platform. One of the largest online travel communities in the world, VirtualTourist is using Gomez’s software-as-a-service solutions to test and monitor its web applications, ensuring a quality web experience for over six million travelers who use its website monthly.
The VirtualTourist website features more than 1.6 million user-generated travel reviews and three million photos on more than 58,000 destinations worldwide. With so much dynamic content and such a global audience, VirtualTourist needed to ensure that all its visitors — no matter their location — received a consistently fast and available web experience. To achieve this, it was important to monitor the performance of the VirtualTourist website from as. [More]