(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 14, 2001 ) SAN MATEO, California, -- Keynote (Nasdaq: KEYN), The Internet Performance Authority®, today announced that WeddingChannel.com, a comprehensive wedding planning Web site, has chosen Keynote Perspective(tm) to measure, assure and benchmark the quality of service it provides to its online customers and partners. Keynote Perspective measures the speed and reliability of WeddingChannel.com, providing it with the data to identify, address, and eliminate site performance problems in a timely manner, assuring customers a high quality of optimum experience during their wedding planning process.

WeddingChannel.com is the #1 online wedding planning resource on the internet, with more than one million unique users and 20 million page views per month, providing couples with a complete menu of wedding-related services, including personalized web pages, planning tools, e-commerce, online travel planning, local business directories and the largest database of bridal fashions. The company also has the largest database of pre-selected gifts worldwide with 15 million gifts available from 700,000 registries. In a recent survey from NPD Research, WeddingChannel.com was the site most often selected by respondents as the one they use to help plan their wedding.

"It is mission critical for WeddingChannel.com to provide problem-free,
consistent access to the best wedding planning tools and content to ensure repeat visits from couples throughout the often frantic wedding planning process," said Rosanna McCollough, vice president of business development and marketing for WeddingChannel.com. "Keynote's services allow us to focus in on specific download issues that might impact our customers' access to the site and enables us to analyze the effects of adjustments we are constantly making to our site to improve its performance. We also use Keynote to compare our performance to that of our competitors which consistently provides a benchmark confirming that we offer the best wedding planning experience on the Internet."
"Customers depend on responsive Web site performance especially when they are planning a major event such as a wedding. It is critical that a customer be able to get to a site in a consistent and reliable manner and to recall decisions that have been made," said Fritz Mueller, senior director of product management for Keynote. "WeddingChannel.com has recognized that need and Keynote Perspective services give it the tools and the data necessary to measure and assure that it is fulfilling that commitment around the clock and providing the highest quality of service to customers who choose to plan
a wedding online."

About WeddingChannel.com
WeddingChannel.com (www.weddingchannel.com) is the world's definitive
marketplace for weddings, connecting engaged couples and their guests with planning resources, vendors, and the gift registries of premier retailers.

Offering engaged couples a complete menu of wedding-related services,
including personalized web pages, planning tools, e-commerce, online travel planning, local business directories and the largest database of bridal fashions, WeddingChannel.com is the most comprehensive wedding planning resource available today. The company has exclusive, strategic relationships with the leaders in bridal registry, including Federated Department Stores, Inc. (the parent company of Bloomingdale's, The Bon Marché, Burdines, Goldsmith's, Lazarus, Macy's, Rich's and Stern's), Tiffany & Co., Crate and Barrel, Neiman Marcus, Williams-Sonoma, Dillard's, Restoration Hardware, REI, Gump's and many more. Through these relationships, WeddingChannel.com offers couples the best selection of branded gifts to add to their registries and provides wedding guests with a convenient way to find couples' registries and purchase gifts online. WeddingChannel.com is a private company whose investors include Amazon.com, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Federated Department Stores, Inc., Goldman Sachs, MacAndrews &
Forbes Holdings, Inc., idealab!, The Neiman Marcus Group, Trinity Ventures, Tiffany & Co., RRE Investors, MSD Capital, Crate and Barrel, and Williams-Sonoma.


About Keynote
Founded in 1995, Keynote (Nasdaq "KEYN"), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in e-commerce benchmarking and Web performance management services that improve the quality of e-business. The company's low-cost and hassle-free performance measurement solutions are used by more than 2,700 B2B and B2C e-businesses, Web-hosters, Internet Service and Content Delivery Providers. Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California. The company can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-522-1000.
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Jason Pfannenstiel
Public Relations Coordinator
Keynote Systems, Inc.
jasonp@keynote.com
(650) 522-1343

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