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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

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And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Having said that, looking at data over the past ten years, it's safe to make the observation that pages are definitely trending bigger. In other words, images comprised almost 75% of the total page weight.

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A Complete Guide to Performance Budgets

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It's easier to make a fast website than it is to keep a website fast. In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB. Media sites are particularly prone to this issue.

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An Opinionated Guide to Performance Budgets

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In an ideal world, pages served to mobile devices should be under 1 MB – and definitely not more than 2 MB – but I often see pages in excess of 5 MB. Just FYI, I had to look up that definition. How Performance Budgets Help Wehkemp Keep Its Website Highly Performant – Berry de Witte. Can You Afford It?

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A simple, client-side approach to measuring Speed Index

Dean Hume

The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each I personally use Google Analytics to keep a close eye on my websites and in this example, I am going to show you how you can start pushing the Speed Index results to Google Analytics. What Speed Index score should I be aiming for?

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A simple, client-side approach to measuring Speed Index

Dean Hume

The Eggplant website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each I personally use Google Analytics to keep a close eye on my websites and in this example, I am going to show you how you can start pushing the Speed Index results to Google Analytics. What Speed Index score should I be aiming for?

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A simple, client-side approach to measuring Speed Index

Dean Hume

The NCC group website does a great job of explaining clearly how Speed Index is calculated. "Each I personally use Google Analytics to keep a close eye on my websites and in this example, I am going to show you how you can start pushing the Speed Index results to Google Analytics. What Speed Index score should I be aiming for?

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