Marriott's Website Named Fastest in Industry by USA Today Study

Top-Ten Consumer Website Ranked #1 in Performance.

When booking a hotel room online, marriott.com users are experiencing the best the Internet has to offer.  According to a recent USA Today-commissioned study, Marriott International (NYSE: MAR) beat all others as the fastest and best performing lodging website.

By winning the top spot, marriott.com (http://www.marriott.com) earned the Gold Award for “Best of the Web.”  This designation came from USA Today’s partner in the study, Compuware.  The study’s metrics included speed, navigation and room details.  Extensive testing found that marriott.com loads quicker than two seconds.  Other hotel websites were sluggish, some taking up to eight seconds to load. 

FULL USA TODAY ARTICLE: http://travel.usatoday.com/news/story/2011/06/Which-travel-websites-are-the-fastest/47916944/1