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Summary
How do the websites of the
Fortune Magazine
Top 10 Fastest Growing Small Companies Compared
in terms of delivered Best Online Experience?
Goals
For this comparative analysis of websites
we define two important dimensions that allow us to
rank order each website in terms of Best Online Experience:
We used the eValid website analysis engine, programmed (see below) to collect specific metrics that contribute to these factors. To assure accuracy the measurements were done over a short time frame and using identical access capabilities.
Results
The measurements we made of the websites of the
Fortune Magazine
Top 10 Fastest Growing Small Companies Compared
produced the relative Quality of Online Experience comparison chart shown.
The data shown are normalized relative values.
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The best-performing websites are in the upper right of the chart, and the worst-performing websites are in the lower left of the chart.
Individual Summary Results
The table below shows all of the results used to construct
the comparative chart.
Click to see the eValid Summary Report with the raw data.
Click to see the 3D-SiteMap for each website.
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Usage Instructions for the 3D-SiteMaps.
Right-click anywhere on any 3D-SiteMap for documentation.
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# | Company | Click For Summary Report | Comments | Click For SiteMap | Comments |
1 | Asta Funding ($28.4 Million) www.astafunding.com | eValid Report | A+: A small website (135 pages), very quick and relatively well maintained. |
![]() | C: Small website, too many broken links, too many backward links. |
2 | Catalyst Semiconductor ($47.5 Million) www.catsemi.com | eValid Report | B-: A very small website (70 pages), nothing broken, but not terribly quick. |
![]() | A-: Very small site, normal spreadout, clean structure. |
3 | CompuDyne ($127.4 Million) www.compudyne.com | eValid Report | B-: One of the poorest scoring in terms of currency and quality, but reasonably quick. |
![]() | B-: Normal structuring, four layers from the top, but with two layers of backward links. Too many broken links. |
4 | Dynacq International ($48.8 Million) www.dynacq.com | eValid Report | B+: A small, very fast and very clean and complete website. |
![]() | A: Two layers from base URL, three layers backward. Normal elaboration and structure. |
5 | Evergreen Resources ($120.8 Million) www.evergreengas.com | eValid Report | B-: A very small website with some broken links, relatively older (stable) pages, and relatively quick. |
![]() | A-: Good structure, but more depth than normal. No backward links. |
6 | Key Production ($108.9 Million) www.keyproduction.com | eValid Report | A+: This is a small website with good response times and relatively good maintenance. |
![]() | B: Normal structuring, five layers from the top, two layers of backward links. |
7 | NYFIX ($41.4 Million) www.nyfix.com | eValid Report | A: A small, compact website that is fast and clean. |
![]() | A-: Classic structure, good elaboration, but too many broken links and too many layers. |
8 | Quicksilver Resources ($143.1 Million) www.qrinc.com | eValid Report | B: A smaller, very current website, but relatively slow to respond. |
![]() | A: Very small site, normal spreadout, clean structure. No backward links. |
9 | Zoll Medical ($124.0 Million) www.zoll.com | eValid Report | A: A larger website (over 5000 links, the limit for this study), very clean and quite speedy. |
![]() | A+: Near-perfect structure, moderate fanout and no backward links. |
10 | 4Kids Entertainment ($41.5 Million) www.4kidsent.com | eValid Report | B: A slightly larger website (250 pages) than the others, quick and quite clean. |
![]() | A: Four layers from base URL, two layers up (back). Normal elaboration and structure. |
Methodology
To collect the data used in the chart we used the eValid website
analysis engine with parameter settings as follows:
Web Access Details
All tests were done on a 384 Kbps (peak performance value) ADSL connection.
The data was collected with successive eValid runs
during normal business hours.