The present invention comprises a method of relating characteristics
gleaned by monitoring application transaction flows (and the decomposition
thereof) to produce performance metrics useful to characterize the
efficiency and performance of web transactions used in a web-based
application. These metrics can assist application designers and developers
in reorganizing their application content, programs, and transports to
provide improved service to their consumer. Events are generated and
composed into predefined activities on a web transaction basis. The
performance metric is then derived that entails a relationship between at
least two different activities that gives insight into the performance
characteristics of the web transaction. By using the derived performance
metrics, designers and developers of web pages can judge the effects of
changes to their application relative to efficiency and performance.
Different applications can also be compared and contrasted using these
metrics. Furthermore, these metrics may serve as inputs to planning models
used to project capacity, throughput, response time, and availability of
the application.
