Getting Started With Your Evaluation

In order to get true data, we recommend the following:

• Don't use bandwidth meters! Bandwidth meters won't help since they simply measure raw data rates. Web accelerators don't improve data rates, rather they reduce the amount of data transferred, which results in faster page display time.
  
  
• Don't compare accelerator-reported bandwidth estimates because each company is estimating, and there's no standardization.
  
  
• Do use multiple, matched machines.
  
  
• Do use Stopwatch (numion.com) or PropelRT (shown below) to gather data. (contact Propel, as we have a variety of tools and resources available to reviewers)