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Compuware Super Bowl Advertisers Site Analysis: Lights Out for a Few Top Brands(GlobeNewswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) DETROIT, Feb. 7, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq:CPWR), the technology performance company, today announced the results of its Super Bowl advertisers website analysis. Super Bowl advertisers spend millions producing commercials to be seen by multi-millions of viewers. Consequently, advertiser website traffic typically spikes in conjunction with this enhanced exposure. As the industry leader in optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications, Compuware monitored advertisers' websites during the Super Bowl to gauge how each performed under increased load. Additionally, in the spirit of Super-Bowl-caliber competition, Compuware conducted a head-to-head comparison of major brands -- based on long-standing industry rivalries -- that included Coke vs. Pepsi, Audi vs. Mercedes-Benz and Universal Pictures vs. Paramount. While some advertisers' sites experienced minimum or no impact from the inflated traffic volumes, others suffered increased page load times and reduced availability, with a few sites crashing during the critical peak period. Over all, the brands that provided the best site performance included Go Daddy, Paramount and Lincoln. The brands that posted the slowest page load times and whose sites were slow throughout the game included Doritos, Coca-Cola and Universal. As for the head-to-head competition, the analysis showed that Pepsi, Mercedes-Benz and Paramount beat the performance of their rivals in terms of average page load times. "We closely monitored the sites of all of the key Super Bowl advertisers at five-minute intervals and were able to determine not only which sites performed well and which didn't, but why they performed the way they did," said Stephen Pierzchala, Technology Strategist, Compuware APM's Center of Excellence. "We were able to pinpoint causes -- from external factors like third-party services and CDN utilization, to design issues such as the use of rich media and heavy-weight plugins -- of the performance issues. "There's a lot involved in ensuring websites perform optimally and provide visitors with an exceptional experience, because that's what users have come to expect and they can be very unforgiving when they don't get it," continued Pierzchala. "Consequently, it's now more important than ever for organizations to partner with a trusted expert like Compuware to ensure that poor website performance doesn't hurt the business." Click here for more details and analysis of Super Bowl advertisers websites. Compuware APM® is the industry's leading solution for optimizing the performance of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications. Driven by end-user experience, Compuware APM provides the market's only unified APM coverage across the entire application delivery chain from the edge of the internet through the cloud to the datacenter. Compuware APM helps customers deliver proactive problem resolution for greater customer satisfaction, accelerate time-to-market for new application functionality and reduce application management costs through smarter analytics and advanced APM automation. With more than 4,000 APM customers worldwide, Compuware is recognized as a leader in the "Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring" report. To read more about Compuware's leadership in the APM market, click here. Follow Compuware on: Twitter - CompuwareAPM Twitter - Compuware Facebook – CompuwareAPM Facebook - Compuware YouTube - Compuware About:Performance Blog Outage Analyzer CloudSleuthCompuware Corporation Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, makes technology make a difference by providing 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. The Compuware logo is available at //www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/prs/ pkgid=5950 CONTACT: Press Contacts Brenda Menard Compuware Corporation [email protected] 781-698-2393 Jackie Lucas Warner Communications 978-526-1960 [email protected] For Sales and Marketing Information Compuware Corporation One Campus Martius Detroit, MI 48226 800-521-9353 http://www.compuware.com Source: Compuware 2013 GlobeNewswire, Inc. |