WESTERN CANADA
EDITION
Website Monitoring Comes to Calgary
Alberta new site for Dotcom-Monitor Website Monitoring
September 6, 2004, Calgary, Alberta -- Dotcom-Monitor
has just chosen Calgary for its newest website monitoring location,
bringing executive class monitoring to western Canada.
"A website must respond to customer needs
quickly and reliably. Monitoring ensures that the site functions
to the customer's satisfaction," says Vadim Mazo, CEO of Dotcom-Monitor.
"The Calgary monitoring station will help businesses better
assess how their websites respond to customers on Canadian Internet
networks."
The Calgary monitoring station is a remotely controlled
robot that visits a company's website, performing functions such
as surfing, testing forms and simulating shopping cart purchases.
Website owners use the results of the robots visits to determine
how their sites respond to human visitors in such areas as performance,
accessibility and response times.
Why not Toronto?
The choice of Calgary over Toronto surprised many
industry observers, but Mr. Mazo explained that server traffic does
not necessarily pass through the biggest population center. "Based
on our research of major Internet Backbones in Canada and our existing
client locations, we see Calgary as a major point for Internet connectivity
in Canada," Mr. Mazo explained. "Calgary is not less important
for Internet traffic than, let's say, Toronto or Vancouver."
To the best of Dotcom-Monitor's knowledge, only
one other significant web site monitoring service has a Canadian
monitoring station, and that is located in Toronto.
"A Toronto monitoring station might be the
best 'marketing choice' to make sales in the United States and Europe,
where Toronto is better known, but we believe we can cover more
Canadian backbones in Calgary than if we had chosen Toronto,"
Mr. Mazo commented. "Our top concern is serving customers who
do business in Canada, and nobody will benefit as much from this
choice as Canadian web site owners."
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