Our benchmark service, which in this area of our site is free to all customers, tells you exactly how well your website is performing via daily updated reports.

Importantly, it also measures your online performance against your competitors. After all, your website could be at its peak by your company standards but below average compared to others - which is just the kind of comparison your customers are making all the time.

We test every site hourly, emulating a dial-up user with a 40kbps connection, and provide results averaged over the previous day.

We monitor the availability and download speed of all the websites that make up our industry sectors. Each sector features a minimum of 10 high-traffic web sites, including both 'bricks and clicks' and Internet-only companies.