-- New Screen Sensing Technology™ Brings First Visibility into the Performance of Interactive Flash and Silverlight-based Web Applications

-- Script, Test and Monitor Complex Composite Web Transactions That Combine Multiple Web 2.0 Technologies

-- New ‘Virtual Pages’ Feature Pinpoints Sources of Poor Performance Such As Ads, Images and Video

Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), the global leader in on-demand mobile and Internet test & measurement solutions for continuously improving the online experience, today announced Keynote Transaction Perspective® 9.0, a greatly enhanced version of the company’s flagship and market-leading Web site monitoring service specifically designed for the ‘Next Web’ applications of today and tomorrow. The industry leading features include groundbreaking support for interactive Flash and Silverlight, composite Web transactions and 3rd party online ad tracking. Transaction Perspective 9.0 distinguishes itself as the industry’s only Web monitoring solution built on an actual Internet Explorer browser combined with the world’s largest global test and measurement network.

“The Next Web is being built with Rich Internet Applications that increasingly use large Interactive Flash and Silverlight components as prominent parts of Web sites. But until now they have remained very much a black box in terms of end user performance - we’re changing that,” said Vik Chaudhary, Keynote vice president of product management and corporate development.

“Transaction Perspective 9.0, with groundbreaking Keynote Screen Sensing Technology™, now provides precise and accurate measurement, from the end user perspective, into the performance of Web applications that use Interactive Flash and/or Silverlight.”

Keynote Screen Sensing Technology tracks the full variety of interactive Flash and Silverlight features such as hover-over effects, action buttons, drop-down menus and text entry – a first for Web performance monitoring solutions.

Solving ‘Next Web’ Performance Challenges

Interactive Flash and Silverlight-based applications are just two potential components of a Web site transaction in this ‘Next Web’ environment. When a user makes a hotel reservation, orders an item of clothing or watches a sports highlight, there are many interaction steps with different Web 2.0 components such as Ajax and JavaScript. These Web technologies, that also pull content from other sources, are composite Web transactions and are extremely complex to test from the end user perspective in terms of performance.