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eCommerce & Retail: There’s No Excuse to Ignore Performance

Rigor

As web perfectionists, we have heard every excuse in the book for why teams cannot make web performance a priority. 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. Sure, that can be the case.

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Five Reasons to Meet Rigor at eTail West

Rigor

Palm Springs, CA is the place to be next week for eCommerce professionals with the annual eTail West Conference taking place Feb. These focus areas are integrally linked with website performance, so it’s essential that brands also work to improve their digital experience. 26 – Mar. You need network throttling for that.

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Why Companies Need Web Performance Monitoring

Dotcom-Montior

But beyond that, even more, important is speed and user experience. It’s even worse for the ecommerce, as every lost prospect is a lost sale. They anticipate websites and online applications to load at lightning speed. Now, speed and user experience has been added to the mix.

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Performance Game Changer: Browser Back/Forward Cache

Smashing Magazine

WebPageTest is one of the few web performance testing tools that actually tests a reload of the page using a primed HTTP Cache — most of the other tools just flag if your HTTP resources are not explicitly set to be cached. Let's see how various eCommerce platforms did this month. webperf #perfmatters.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Reading time 16 min Whether you’re a web performance expert, an evangelist for the culture of performance, a web engineer incorporating performance into your process, or someone new to the web performance entirely, you probably identify as curious, excited about new ideas, and always learning. Rachel Andrew.

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Google Lighthouse vs Rigor

Rigor

When you run Lighthouse, you can choose to receive up to five different scores, including SEO, Best Practices, Progressive Web App (PWA), Accessibility, and Performance , that can provide valuable insight for your dev team to act on. As we’ve discussed before , Lighthouse blends these performance metrics into a single composite score.

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