Keynote Breaks New Ground Delivering HTML5 Browser Support for Mobile Web Performance Monitoring

Nov. 15, 2011 - PRLog -- Keynote (R) Systems , the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud monitoring and testing, today announced the release of Mobile Web Perspective (MWP) 5.2 and Mobile Internet Testing Environment(TM) (MITE) 2.2, the latest versions of Keynote's mobile performance monitoring and content testing products supporting advanced HTML5.

With an estimated 34% of the world's top 100 websites using HTML5, and the mobile device market of smartphones and tablets growing at an exponential rate, it is critical for mobile websites to close the performance gap with the desktop experience. MWP 5.2 and MITE 2.2 empower IT and Web operations professionals to set and achieve performance goals in order to provide a better mobile user experience. Using these solutions, enterprise customers can consistently monitor and optimize their mobile sites around the clock, based on devices, networks and geographies.

Keynote Mobile Web Perspective (MWP) allows users to monitor the availability, response time and quality of any mobile website from the Keynote global monitoring network. Complex use cases that combine navigating websites on a desktop or mobile device and sending/receiving SMS messages can be monitored using MWP. Companies can set instant alerts to quickly inform key members of the operations team who can then address issues and minimize their impact.

Mobile Web Optimization: http://mite.keynote.com/how-it-works/mite.php

Keynote MITE is the most advanced tool for testing and verifying mobile content. With MITE, mobile content developers as well as operations and QA teams can instantly verify if website content is correctly formatted and displayed across mobile devices using a built-in library of 2,000 devices and 12,000 devices profiles. MITE 2.2 is available for free download at mite.keynote.com.

"Developers are sprinting to adopt HTML5 to enhance the mobile experience, and the improvements are remarkable," said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. "But there's also a performance impact that must be measured using performance tools that have a mobile DNA, not a Web DNA. By monitoring websites using the accurate mobile browser engine, WebKit (embedded in iOS and Android phones), we're ensuring that ops teams are still getting the most accurate read on what's happening to the performance of HTML5 mobile sites."

New MWP 5.2 and MITE 2.2 Features

WebKit Browser - WebKit is the most widely used mobile browser and is embedded in both iPhone's iOS platform and Android phones. Keynote's use of the actual WebKit browser enables the most accurate performance monitoring for mobile websites. Unlike Web browser solutions that attempt to emulate mobile browsing, Keynote MWP provides performance measurement data on HTML5 sites that is native and faithful to how smartphone users actually experience the mobile Web.

Touch Events - Mobile websites taking advantage of smartphone touchscreens allow end users to interact with content in ways generally not supported on the Web. With this release, MWP and MITE are both aware of touch events and provide Keynote customers with the ability to create scripts that mimic a human being actually performing gestures such as taps and swipes. Consequently, operations teams can now monitor the end user experience of tap and swipe gestures on today's leading smartphones.

Global Infrastructure with Geo-location - The Geo-location API allows smartphones to take advantage of location aware services offered by mobile websites; examples include: downloading store locations on retail sites, finding restaurant lists on Yelp, checking-in on Facebook, seeing local ads on content sites and getting weather updates on Yahoo! With this release Keynote makes two new capabilities available:

-- Within MITE, mobile site operators now have the ability to specify different locations and test location-specific content by sending any GPS coordinates to the mobile website.
-- Similarly, operators can use the Keynote global network to monitor local-specific content by specifying any GPS coordinates. Beyond being just city aware, Keynote mobile performance monitoring is now street aware. This is the latest in location-based performance monitoring for mobile websites that are taking advantage of the Geo-location API in HTML5.

HTML5's Local Storage - Local Storage is a great new technique Web developers are using to improve the mobile browsing experience. It allows for an entire mobile website to be downloaded to the smartphone for offline browsing and speeds up mobile sites by locally caching data that does not frequently change. Many sites will benefit from Local Storage, such as media sites that have a lot of content for browsing. With this release, Keynote MITE supports HTML5 Local Storage giving testers the ability to verify that an entire mobile site has indeed been downloaded for offline browsing.
Benefits of Keynote MWP and MITE

A number of teams across the enterprise benefit from Keynote's mobile Web performance monitoring, content testing and verification including services.

IT and Web operations teams can:

Detect mobile website availability with Keynote MWP and track when minimum performance thresholds are not being met. Real time alarming notifies the first line teams of critical issues and helps them pinpoint the problem areas so they can quickly address issues; reducing the mean time to repair.
Use Keynote MITE to analyze Web content and verify that it works well with selected devices and locations. IT operations can triage potential performance and quality impacting issues and work with development teams to improve mobile website performance.

Online and mobile business managers can:

Gain insight into the performance of their mobile website from the perspective of their end users with Keynote MWP. Knowing performance relative to the competition and industry best practices allows the product and business manager to make strategic decisions on how much content to deliver up front, knowing that more content can result in slower loading times and better user experience.
Use measurements from Keynote MWP to review service level reporting of the ongoing performance levels and, when called for, change strategic direction.

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Keynote Systems, Inc.,  is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud monitoring and testing. Keynote maintains the world's largest on-demand performance monitoring and testing infrastructure for web and mobile sites comprised of over 4,000 measurement computers and mobile devices in over 275 locations around the world that enable companies to continuously improve the online and mobile experience.

Keynote Systems: http://mite.keynote.com/