Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Over the years, I have watched and written about online retail and e-commerce IT performance. What I have seen is a maturing of the online retail channels when it comes to delivering customer experiences. This year we saw few, if any, major issues with online retailers. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

Retail 223

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 223

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

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.

Servers 57

Servers Cache Retail Benchmarking 57

Speed Curve

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB.

Performance 134

Performance Metrics Benchmarking Google 134

Speed Curve

OCTOBER 27, 2020

You can dig deeper into the mechanics of how it's calculated, but the human-friendly definition is that CLS helps you understand how likely a page is to deliver a janky, unpleasant experience to viewers. Here are the current US media benchmarks on a fast desktop connection , ranked by CLS score. It's definitely worth a read.).

Retail 81

Retail Benchmarking Google Metrics 81

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

MAY 1, 2023

If you've invested countless hours in speeding up your pages, but you're not using performance budgets to prevent regressions, you could be at risk of wasting all your efforts. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB.

Performance 98

Performance Metrics Media Google 98