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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. The nirvana state of system uptime at peak loads is known as “five-nines availability.” In its pursuit, IT teams hover over system performance dashboards hoping their preparations will deliver five nines—or even four nines—availability. Downtime per year.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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How to use Server Timing to get backend transparency from your CDN

Speed Curve

Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Pagespeed Benchmarks - US Retail - LCP When you examine a waterfall, it's pretty obvious that TTFB is the long pole in the tent, pushing out render times for the page.

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Monitor dynamic application workflows with placeholders and synthetic location context

Dynatrace

Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7. Some common examples of such business-critical workflows include: Sign-up processes. Checking out of a retail site. Contact forms. Pricing calculators.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

This" can mean anything from design and features to our own internal processes. We've also grown our team, expanded our customer base, completed a full-scale site redesign, launched our in-house consulting practice, and refined our tools and processes. Web Performance for Retailers. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Web pages are unbelievably complex, and there are hundreds of different metrics available to track. Throughout this post I've used examples from our public Industry Benchmarks dashboard , which I'd encourage you to check out so that you can explore these metrics on your own. Is it loading? Here are some metrics to consider.