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 217

Retail Social Media Performance Benchmarking 217

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Complicating the situation further, increasingly connected services are pushing more data processing to the edge. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes.

Infrastructure 179

Infrastructure Availability Systems Retail 179

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

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. Since our team is preparing for eTail West , there is no better time to address some of the common objections I’ve seen when talking to eCommerce and Retail teams about performance.

Ecommerce 40

Ecommerce Retail Performance Benchmarking 40

Speed Curve

MARCH 5, 2023

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. The blue bar represents the change in bounce rate across all cohorts. You need to look at your own real user data. (If

Performance 119

Performance C++ Metrics Ecommerce 119

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. We fairly frequently see performance get 5% or more worse over time in a single process execution. 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

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. JavaScript is a massive CPU hog, so this is concerning, especially if your users are on older devices with less processing power. (If

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145