As Holiday Shoppers Flock To The Web, WatchMouse Tracks Performance Of E-Retailers

Website monitoring startup WatchMouse is now monitoring the top 100 retail websites for availability around the holiday shopping season. The starup tested retail sites including Apple, Amazon, BestBuy, Borders, Overstock, Walmart and Zappos, for availability and performance during the month leading up to and including Thanksgiving Day, November 25 and Black Friday, November 26. WatchMouse says that 27 of the 100 sites had 100% uptime; 15 came in at 99.99%, and only American Eagle Outfitters, GiltGroupe, Footlocker.com, and Fry's Electronics landed in the "unacceptable" category. American Eagle Outfitters performed the worst during the monitoring period from October 25 - November 26, 2010 with nearly one full day of downtime.

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