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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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Industry page speed benchmarks (March 2022)

Speed Curve

Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media – over the past year. Fastest Retail Sites. Create your own custom benchmark dashboard. United States. UK & EU. United States.

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Introducing Page Speed Benchmarks – a new resource for the performance community

Speed Curve

What are some good sites I can use for benchmarking? Page Speed Benchmarks is an interactive dashboard that lets you explore and compare web performance data for leading websites across several industries – from retail to media. Identify sites you can use for your own competitive benchmarking. How awesome is that?!

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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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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

We track LEGO.com, along with a handful of other leading ecommerce sites, in our public-facing Retail Benchmarks dashboard , which I encourage you to check out. Optimizing the critical rendering path could make this page a star on the Retail Benchmarks leaderboard. seconds (which is a lot!) Those are already big wins.

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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. Checking out of a retail site. Dynatrace helps to ensure these workflows are available globally and performing well so that you can be confident that you’re meeting your SLAs. Contact forms.