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DETROIT, Oct. 3, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced that it has published a new whitepaper titled "10 Best Practices for Benchmarking Web and Mobile Site Performance." The paper provides a list of best practices for benchmarking web or mobile site performance based on top performing web and mobile sites on the Compuware Gomez Benchmarks.

Benchmarking — comparing and tracking web or mobile site performance against competitors in your industry and Internet leaders — is a first step in determining whether your web or mobile site performance is supporting your business goals and meeting your customers' expectations. This comparative measurement approach can help companies to compete more effectively and make better decisions about investments in optimization projects.

This "real-world" view of performance can help companies understand the web or mobile experiences being delivered to customers. This paper provides best practices used to routinely compare performance and measure it against reference points such as:

Is our site as fast and available as the average for our industry?
How do our site's metrics compare to the Internet leaders?
What is our site's performance change over time?

The whitepaper can be downloaded at http://ow.ly/6F17J.

Gomez Benchmarks are an impartial, quantitative measurement of comparative web and mobile site performance and rank the web and mobile performance of companies across three key metrics:

Response Time — measures the time elapsed while downloading a page or an entire multistep transaction process.
Availability — measures the percentage of successfully completed tests out of total test attempts for the measurement period.
Consistency — measures the standard deviation of the response time of successful tests completed.

Benchmarks are used by organizations to compare and track performance against competitors and market leaders; baseline and track performance over time; and as key indicators of success for business and IT site owners. Gomez publishes hundreds of global web and mobile performance benchmarks based on more than 20 million monthly tests across 3,000 companies in 13 countries and include:

Home Page Backbone Benchmarks: measure the performance of the website's home page from the Internet Backbone.
Home Page Last Mile Benchmarks: measure the performance of the home page from the end user's desktop taking into account the real user's connection speed.
Transaction Benchmarks: measure the performance of a key business process such as ordering a product or making a stock trade.
Mobile Benchmarks: measure the performance of mobile site's home page on the largest carriers and top devices.

The Gomez platform is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Gomez provides a unified view across the entire application delivery chain, from a user's browser or mobile device, across the Internet or a corporate WAN, in the cloud, to inside the data center, eliminating blind spots from the First Mile to the Last Mile.

Compuware Corporation

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, provides software, experts and best practices to ensure technology works well and delivers value. Compuware solutions make the world's most important technologies perform at their best for leading organizations worldwide, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.

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Compuware Publishes New Whitepaper: "10 Best Practices for Benchmarking Web and Mobile Site Performance"