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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

Dynatrace

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.

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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.

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Performance audit: Lego.com

Speed Curve

So I thought it would be fun to spend some time poking around behind the scenes and give the site a holiday performance audit. Background For this performance audit, I looked at this synthetic test for the LEGO.com home page. (We The performance team is clearly doing a good job of fighting page bloat. Are images optimized?

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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. 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. Sure, that can be the case.

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What is FinOps? How to keep cloud spend in check

Dynatrace

FinOps helps engineering, development, finance, and business teams meet critical key performance indicators (KPIs) and fulfill service-level agreements. Today, many global industries implement FinOps, including telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, and energy conservation, as well as most Fortune 50 companies.

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

Speed Curve

That performance golden rule still holds true today. Looking at the industry benchmarks for US retailers , four well-known sites have backend times that are approaching – or well beyond – that threshold. Charlie Vazac introduced server timing in a Performance Calendar post circa 2018.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

Speed Curve

Performance budgets are one of those ideas that everyone gets behind conceptually, but then are challenged to put into practice – and for very good reason. If you're just getting started with performance budgets – or if you've been using them for a while and want to validate your work – this post is for you.