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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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Kubernetes in the wild report 2023

Dynatrace

In comparison, on-premises clusters have more and larger nodes: on average, 9 nodes with 32 to 64 GB of memory. This trend shows that organizations are dedicating significantly more Kubernetes clusters to running software build, test, and deployment pipelines. Kubernetes infrastructure models differ between cloud and on-premises.

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Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Their Websites for Holiday Shoppers

Dotcom-Montior

Retailers Still Fail to Prepare Websites for Holiday Shoppers Monitoring of Retailer’s Websites during Black Friday holiday shopping. Black Friday is one of the most valuable times for retailers across the world because buyers shop until they drop. Measured start page load time of leading Retailers websites. The Setup.

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

Speed Curve

Expanded our test agent locations to bring you even more places to test from worldwide. As you may already know, we run full Lighthouse audits on every page you test in synthetic. The results – including detailed performance optimization recommendations – are available in your test details. Synthetic Site.

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NEW: Compare ALL the things!

Speed Curve

While you've always had the ability to do this in SpeedCurve, we recently added new functionality that makes it much easier for you to bookmark and compare different Synthetic tests in your test history. Along the way, we've also made it much more intuitive for you to drill down into your detailed Synthetic test results.

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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 test in top row has the anti-flicker snippet in place. before the hero image.

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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. You can check out a comparison of their hosting to Walmart.com here.

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