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 220

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 220

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. But is five nines availability attainable?

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 182

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

For each site, I used a month's worth of RUM (real user monitoring) data to generate correlation charts. Poverty lines emerged for both Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint I expected the results for Start Render, as it's been around as a page speed metric for many years, and has been proven to correlate to business metrics.

Performance 118

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 118

Rigor

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Whether it be time, money, or technical know how, every day we talk to eCommerce and Retail teams who explain why they aren’t monitoring their site’s performance. You don’t have the time to monitor something that affects your company’s revenue and almost every online metric your business cares about ? Conclusion.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your current competitive benchmarks status. Hint: If you're considering installing a big-screen performance monitor at your organization, this dashboard is a good candidate for that.). Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. The current status of your performance budgets. Synthetic Site dashboard. Lots of new videos!

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Retail Traffic Metrics 52

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. These numbers should not be taken as a benchmark for your own site. You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ).

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you want to understand how people actually experience your site, then you need to monitor real users. We also added a "Performance 101" section that includes articles like: Synthetic vs. Real User Monitoring. Web Performance for Retailers. Industry speed benchmarks for Japan. Visibility is the first step!

Retail 52

Retail Benchmarking Metrics Website 52