article thumbnail

Site-Speed Topography

CSS Wizardry

When first working on a new site-speed engagement, you need to work out quickly where the slowdowns, blindspots, and inefficiencies lie. For the sake of the rest of the post, I’ll be auditing an anonymised ecommerce client of mine, but you’ll be able to swap out my page types for your own with ease. Gathering Data.

Speed 292
article thumbnail

User-centric Metrics Matter to Ecommerce. Start with These Five.

Rigor

Reading Time: 8 minutes Whether your ecommerce business is 100% online or you supplement with bricks and mortar, your website is a critical revenue driver. Additionally, teams are measuring and tracking key business metrics – conversion rates, cart abandonment rates, customer lifetime value, revenue by traffic source, and so on.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How multicloud observability boosts cloud performance at Tractor Supply Co.

Dynatrace

Kiran Bollampally, site reliability and digital analytics lead for ecommerce at Tractor Supply Co., shifted most of its ecommerce and enterprise analytics workloads to Kubernetes-managed software containers running in Microsoft Azure. “We monitor all services that produce metrics in the top three clouds,” he said.

Cloud 171
article thumbnail

The “Best” Performance Metrics? Start With These Six

Rigor

It’s true that what might be considered the “most important” or “best” web performance metrics can vary by industry. These six metrics were not chosen at random – they work together to give you a snapshot of your site’s performance and overall user experience so you can set a baseline and improve speed and usability.

Metrics 101
article thumbnail

What is Business Analytics? How connecting IT to business improves business outcomes

Dynatrace

To measure service quality, IT teams monitor infrastructure, applications, and user experience metrics, which in turn often support service level objectives (SLO)s. But these metrics and SLOs are only indirectly connected to business KPIs, which often leads to misplaced priorities, ineffective collaboration, and lost business opportunities.

Analytics 176
article thumbnail

How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Dynatrace

The only way to address these challenges is through observability data — logs, metrics, and traces. For example, users generate user data, ecommerce sites generate business data, and service portals generate service desk tickets and call volume data. Your key business objectives will drive your strategy and metrics.

Analytics 191
article thumbnail

Why you need to know your site's performance poverty line (and how to find it)

Speed Curve

"I made my pages faster, but my business and user engagement metrics didn't change. The performance poverty line is the plateau at which changes to your website’s rendering metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint) cease to matter because you’ve bottomed out in terms of business and user engagement metrics.