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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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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

How does page bloat affect other metrics, such as Google's Core Web Vitals? And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. JavaScript – A page can have a relatively low JS weight but still suffer from JS-inflicted performance problems.

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What is page bloat? And how is it hurting your business, your search rank, and your users?

Speed Curve

And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Core Web Vitals are a Google search ranking factor. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking.

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Five Reasons to Meet Rigor at eTail West

Rigor

As a retailer, you know that conversion rates are the lifeblood of your business. But, have you considered that slow page load times or web performance issues might be the culprit behind low conversion rates, high bounce rates, and shopping cart abandonment? Google’s SpeedUpdate has you nervous about your mobile page speed.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Jake worked at the BBC for four years, writing low-level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility, performance and browser support requirements.

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Mobile web testing – 3 approaches that will make your life easy

Testsigma

We were going through Adobe Retail Shopping Insights (2020) and found out that more than 42% of consumers have done their holiday shopping via smartphones. Here are some reasons why mobile web testing is important: For A Better Search Result Ranking: Google ranks websites based on how mobile-friendly they are.

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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Bloom filter is liable to false positives, so it can not completely replace traditional checks using hash sets with attributes, but it can be used as a preliminary test to decrease a number of relatively expensive exact checks.

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