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Frictionless retail: A pandemic imperative for IT

Dynatrace

For most who work in the retail sector, the pandemic has been an unwelcome test of our ability to cope with disruption. In eight months, retailers offering curbside pickup increased from 7% to 44%, reflecting rapidly changing consumer preferences. Let’s illustrate a simple use case for a retail outlet. Dynatrace news.

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A retailer's guide to web performance

Speed Curve

I’m at Shop.org this week, having really interesting conversations with online retailers. Making customers happy is the not-so-secret secret to retail success. Here's an overview of the most common performance issues on retail sites, and how you can track them down and fix them. What's making my pages seem slower?

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

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Hero Rendering Times: New metrics for measuring UX

Speed Curve

That's why we're very excited to introduce Hero Rendering Times, a set of new metrics for measuring the user experience. These metrics are available right now to SpeedCurve users. A brief history of UX metrics. This metric, which is measured in WebPageTest , identifies when the visible parts of a page are displayed.

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NEW: Compare ALL the things!

Speed Curve

One of the huge benefits of tracking web performance over time is the ability to see trends and compare metrics. Understand which metrics got better or worse. Now let's walk through how to run a comparison and analysis using a real-world example from our "Top Sites" demo account. Test case: CNN. Time to dig deeper.

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What is real user monitoring (RUM)?

Dynatrace

Real user monitoring collects data on a variety of metrics. For example, data collected on load actions can include navigation start, request start, and speed index metrics. Real user monitoring works by injecting code into an application to capture metrics while the application is in use. How real user monitoring works.

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2021 in review: It was a big year!

Speed Curve

We've been tracking these as individual metrics – Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift – since before Google branded them as a set. Watch a demo video showing how to create custom charts and performance budgets for Web Vitals.). Web Performance for Retailers. RUM Live dashboard.

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