Gomez Expands Web Performance Load Testing and Monitoring Network to Over 100,000...

Gomez Expands Web Performance Load Testing and Monitoring Network to Over
100,000 Locations Worldwide

Gomez Last Mile(TM) Network Delivers Most Realistic Insight into End-Users'
True Web Experiences

LEXINGTON, Mass., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Gomez, Inc. (www.gomez.com), the
leader in Web application experience management, today announced that the
Gomez Last Mile(TM) Web performance load testing and monitoring network now
exceeds 100,000 consumer-grade desktop computers in 168 countries using 2500
local Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The Gomez Last Mile is the industry's
only network that provides businesses with the broadest geographic insight
into how their Web applications perform at the "edge" of the Internet on real,
consumer-grade desktop computers connected via dial-up, DSL, cable, and low
and high broadband.

Today's Web applications are delivered to end-users' computer via a Web
application delivery chain that includes multiple third-party content
providers, cloud and web services, content delivery networks (CDNs), ISPs and
wireless carriers. Successful execution hinges on all these services working
together and the application ultimately assembling in an end-user's browser.
However, at any point in this fragile chain -- from the data center to the
browser -- issues can occur, leading to frustration for the end-user and
problems for a business' brand and revenue. Because the Gomez Last Mile
network is the largest, most distributed testing and monitoring network,
organizations can use it to hone in on localized performance issues and their
root causes such as local CDN nodes, or third-party elements blocking content
from downloading. Web performance testing via the Gomez Last Mile network
provides object-level detail about the speed and availability of Web
applications as experienced by real consumer-grade computers connected via
consumer-grade ISPs, information that cannot be obtained by just testing Web
performance from computers located in enterprise-grade data centers.

"Web application performance measurement is getting more complex due to the
dozens of end-user connection models around the world, from dial-up to DSL,
cable modem, satellite, cell phone, and fiber optic models. Even as Internet
core performance has improved, end-users still suffer through poor
experiences. Measurement at or very close to the customer-deployed edge has
become even more necessary for measuring actual Internet application
performance," said Daniel Golding, Vice President and Research Director, Tier1
Research.

The Gomez Last Mile network is also the most accurate resource for realistic
Web performance load testing. Gomez's load testing solution uniquely creates
load from the geographically-dispersed desktops on the Gomez Last Mile network
and from the Internet backbone/cloud. This combination reveals how real-world
volume impacts end-users' experiences so that businesses can make corrections
before releasing new applications.

"To deliver quality Web experiences, you have to test from wherever your
end-users are," said Imad Mouline, Gomez's CTO. "The reach and diversity of
the Gomez Last Mile network helps businesses target their Web application
performance testing in a laser-like fashion, right down to the city, region or
country. For businesses with audiences in specific regions -- or planning to
move into new markets -- it is the only realistic way to find and resolve
business-impacting performance issues."

The Gomez Last Mile is a key component of the Gomez Network, the world's most
comprehensive Web application performance testing and monitoring network. It
comprises 100+ commercial-grade Internet backbone nodes, 100,000+ Last Mile
desktop computers, and a virtual test bed of over 500 browsers and operating
systems.

To build its Last Mile network, Gomez recruits the computers of "peers",
consumer-grade computers from everyday people across the globe connected to
the Web. Leveraging unused processing cycles, Gomez instructs these computers
to execute Web performance tests on its customers' Web sites. To become a
compensated peer, please visit: http://www.gomezpeerzone.com/.

About Gomez
Gomez, Inc. (www.gomez.com) is the leader in Web application experience
management, providing an on-demand platform that organizations use to optimize
the performance, availability, and quality of their Web and mobile
applications. The Gomez platform identifies business-impacting issues by
testing and measuring Web applications from the "outside-in" - across all
users, browsers, devices, and geographies -- using a global network of over
100,000 locations. The self-service Gomez platform integrates Web load
testing, Web performance management, cross-browser testing, and Web
performance business analysis. Over 2,500 customers worldwide, ranging from
small companies to large enterprises -- including 12 of the top 20 most
visited US Web sites -- use Gomez to increase revenue, build brand loyalty,
and decrease costs.

Gomez is a registered service mark and Gomez Last Mile is a service mark of
Gomez, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their
respective owners.

Follow Gomez on Twitter: @Gomez_Inc
Connect with Gomez on Facebook: http://companies.to/gomez/
Join the Gomez User Group on LinkedIn

Available Topic Expert(s): For information on the listed expert(s), click
appropriate link.
Imad Mouline
https://profnet.prnewswire.com/Subscriber/ExpertProfile.aspx?ei=69341

SOURCE Gomez, Inc.

Gomez, Inc., Samantha McGarry, +1-781-778-2783, smcgarry@gomez.com, or
Kristina Leblanc, +1-508-930-5636, kristinawleblanc@gmail.com; Twitter:
@Gomez_Inc