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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. This is where many retailers have matured over the years.

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Navigate your way to better performance with prerendering and the bfcache

Speed Curve

In this post, I'll demonstrate how you can use SpeedCurve RUM to identify all types of navigations, their performance impact, and potential opportunities for delivering lightning-fast page speed to your users. Often you'll have to revert back to traditional timing metrics or those that are triggered by using custom metrics.

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2022 in review: New dashboards, Core Web Vitals enhancements, third-party tracking & more!

Speed Curve

With your RUM Compare dashboard , you can easily generate side-by-side comparisons for any two cohorts of real user data. Triage a performance regression related to the latest change or deployment to your site by looking at a before/after comparison. Expanded Industry Speed Benchmarks. Synthetic Site. Synthetic Page.

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How Target.com Could Make Their Site 3.1s Faster

MachMetrics

Target is one of the most well-known retailers around, and they’ve recently increased their focus on the e-commerce portion of their business – Target.com. In fact, they just cracked into the top 10 list of US e-commerce retailers. ” This is because Target.com does an excellent job of improving user-perceived speed.

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Understanding the performance impact of anti-flicker snippets

Speed Curve

But as you can see in these filmstrips of Wiggle, a UK cycling retailer, hiding the page can have a dramatic impact on a visitor's experience: Comparison of a site loading with (top) and without (bottom) the anti-flicker snippet enabled. the speed of the network the device is connected to.

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NEW: Compare ALL the things!

Speed Curve

With the new 'Compare' feature, you can now generate side-by-side comparisons that let you not only spot regressions, but easily identify what caused them: Compare the same page at different points in time. How to bookmark sites for comparison. (If In this demo account, we track a number of leading retail, travel, and media sites.

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Sampling RUM: When and why it's a good idea

Speed Curve

This allows you to do things like increase the sample rate for an A/B test group for comparison with a control group when the test group is extremely small. Whether you're a retail site, financial services, media or other, you likely have a smaller set of users that you are VERY interested in.

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