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Movers & Shakers: This Week's API Performance Report

Nov 15, 20233 min read
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APIContext Editorial Team

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Research, product, and field notes from the APIContext team on API reliability, conformance, and operational visibility.

We've got some interesting data in our API performance report this week, so without further ado, let's get into it.

Top Drops in API Performance

Box in the Corporate Infrastructure collection dropped 14 places. API performance decreased by 11% from 9.59 (in the Green Zone) to 8.5 (in the Green Zone). box api perfromance This was generally due to a number of outliers across all endpoints across the first part of the week. Next up: Gemini in the Exchanges collection dropped 27 places. API performance decreased by 22% from 9.55 (in the Green Zone) to 7.41 (in the Yellow Zone). This was due to a cluster of HTTP 503 responses at the start of the week. This looks to have been scheduled. Open Bank Project in the PSD2 Institutions collection decreased by 11% from 8.72 (in the Green Zone) to 7.71 (in the Yellow Zone). Open Bank Project API performance This was due to a number of very slow outliers at the start of the week. Capital One is not looking good - even though they had the most impressive comeback for the week. capital one api performance Capital One in the Open Banking UK Production collection increased by 29% from 6.3 (in the Yellow Zone) to 8.12 (in the Green Zone). This was due to an around 200ms reduction in server processing time between the 2 weeks.

Our Favorite Hate-Watch: Government API Performance

This time, on both sides of The Pond! DEFRA in the UK Government collection decreased by 23% from 8.74 (in the Green Zone) to 6.72 (in the Yellow Zone). This was due to a number of spikes in server processing time throughout the week affecting all of their monitored endpoints. And stateside, the one government API we're obsessed with. Dept of Energy in the US Government collection decreased by 46% from 5.17 (in the Red Zone) to 2.77 (in the Red Zone). Nooooooooooooo! You were doing so well, now you have dropped back down to an even more terrible CASC score. At least it wasn't due to outliers this time, they have at least managed to fix that. Instead we have a wonderful mix of HTTP 500 and 503 responses for around half a day on the 8th.

Other API Performance Highlights

Corporate Infrastructure

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Box

8.5

9.59

15

1

-14

Adobe

8.99

9.05

12

10

-2

PagerDuty

9.0

8.97

11

12

1

Github

9.33

9.37

3

4

1

Salesforce

9.5

9.51

1

2

1

Pivotal Tracker

9.38

9.4

2

3

1

Microsoft Office365

9.09

9.02

10

11

1

Microsoft Graph (Office)

8.93

8.88

13

15

2

Auth0

9.29

8.97

4

13

9

Corporate Messaging

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Africa's Talking

7.95

8.55

5

4

-1

Vonage (formerly Nexmo)

8.25

8.25

4

5

1

Enterprise Messaging

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Cisco

8.07

8.2

5

4

-1

Zoom

8.26

8.14

4

5

1

Exchanges

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Gemini

7.41

9.55

28

1

-27

Bitstamp

8.93

9.16

17

8

-9

Gate.io

8.94

9.06

16

12

-4

Bithumb

8.59

8.63

22

18

-4

Huobi Global

8.56

8.55

23

20

-3

LA Token

9.03

9.14

13

10

-3

Binance US

9.15

9.21

9

7

-2

Bancor Network

6.05

7.07

30

28

-2

Binance

8.51

8.5

24

22

-2

Coinpaprika

8.8

8.85

18

17

-1

3commas

7.91

8.39

26

25

-1

Coinone

9.16

9.21

7

6

-1

Coinbase

8.94

8.95

15

14

-1

Korbit

9.03

8.99

12

13

1

CoinLore

9.59

9.53

1

2

1

Bitrrex

9.16

9.14

8

9

1

OKEx

9.37

9.26

4

5

1

bitFlyer

8.97

8.9

14

16

2

Coin Metrics

9.54

9.4

2

4

2

HitBTC

8.66

8.45

19

23

4

ZB.com

9.07

8.93

10

15

5

Liquid

8.18

6.66

25

30

5

KuCoin

8.66

8.36

20

26

6

Bitfinex

9.23

8.61

5

19

14

BitMEX

9.23

8.42

6

24

18

Fintech

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Square (Sandbox)

8.11

8.69

10

7

-3

Paypal (Sandbox)

8.77

8.85

5

4

-1

Finicity

9.18

8.8

4

5

1

Truelayer

8.7

8.6

7

8

1

Intuit

8.63

8.53

8

9

1

Yapily

8.62

8.48

9

10

1

IP Geolocators

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

IP2Location.io

9.18

9.31

4

3

-1

ipgeolocator

9.47

9.49

2

1

-1

ipwhois

9.36

9.28

3

4

1

ipdata

9.51

9.47

1

2

1

Open Banking UK Open Data

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

NatWest Group

9.65

9.7

4

3

-1

Lloyds Group

8.89

8.94

7

6

-1

Bank of Ireland

9.68

9.7

3

4

1

Santander

9.16

8.48

6

7

1

Open Banking UK Production

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Ulster Bank NI

7.24

9.07

30

14

-16

RBS Production

7.52

9.13

28

13

-15

NatWest Production

7.46

9.05

29

16

-13

Barclays Business

7.08

8.38

33

24

-9

Bank of Ireland (UK) Plc

8.48

9.18

21

12

-9

Barclays Personal

7.15

8.32

32

25

-7

Halifax

8.79

9.2

17

11

-6

NewDay - Amazon Mastercard

9.33

9.79

7

1

-6

NewDay - Aqua

9.28

9.64

9

6

-3

Nationwide Building Society

9.26

9.56

10

7

-3

Vanquis Bank

7.19

7.76

31

29

-2

HSBC Bank (Personal)

8.66

9.03

19

17

-2

Virgin Money

9.0

9.32

11

10

-1

HSBC Bank (Business)

8.25

8.42

23

22

-1

Cumberland Building Society

8.56

8.93

20

19

-1

Revolut

9.71

9.76

1

2

1

Monzo Bank

9.32

9.34

8

9

1

Allied Irish Bank (GB)

9.47

9.49

6

8

2

Cashplus Bank

8.02

7.91

26

28

2

Danske Bank (Personal)

9.68

9.72

2

4

2

Bank of Scotland

8.94

9.07

13

15

2

Tesco Bank

8.42

8.23

22

26

4

Yorkshire Building Society

8.08

7.69

25

30

5

Cater Allen Private Bank

7.7

7.32

27

32

5

OBIE Directory

8.86

8.72

15

21

6

Lloyds Bank

8.86

8.77

14

20

6

Starling Bank

8.96

8.96

12

18

6

Capital One

8.12

6.3

24

33

9

TSB

8.8

7.98

16

27

11

Santander

8.66

7.41

18

31

13

Creation Cards

9.64

8.39

4

23

19

PSD2 Institutions

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Open Bank Project

7.71

8.72

4

2

-2

Capital One US (sandbox)

8.46

8.33

2

3

1

ABN

8.38

8.26

3

4

1

Search

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

DuckDuckGo

8.91

8.98

3

2

-1

Bing

9.2

8.98

2

3

1

Social

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

Tumblr

9.46

9.5

5

4

-1

LinkedIn

9.49

9.55

4

3

-1

Flickr

9.53

9.65

2

1

-1

Reddit

9.6

9.57

1

2

1

Twitter

9.5

9.49

3

5

2

UK Government

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

DEFRA

6.72

8.74

4

3

-1

NHS

8.71

8.58

3

4

1

US Government

Project

Current CASC Score

Previous CASC Score

Current Rank

Previous Rank

Change

FEC

8.96

8.99

6

4

-2

Dept of Justice

7.04

7.82

12

11

-1

Data.gov

9.13

9.1

4

3

-1

Dept of Housing and Urban Development

9.39

9.38

2

1

-1

US Census Bureau

8.68

8.82

8

7

-1

NASA

7.88

8.22

10

9

-1

Bureau of Labor Statistics

9.39

9.14

1

2

1

Veterans Affairs

8.81

8.67

7

8

1

FDA

8.05

8.13

9

10

1

FEMA

7.82

6.5

11

12

1

FCC

9.2

8.92

3

6

3

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