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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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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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NEW! December product update

Speed Curve

We wanted to wait until the dust settled around Black Friday/Cyber Monday for all of our friends in retail, which led to a pretty monumental release.) GitHub integration This integration will provide the ability to link your GitHub repo to a site in SpeedCurve and automatically run performance tests against a GitHub deployment.

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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. Given that Google continues to dominate search usage, you should care about Vitals alongside the other metrics you should be tracking. The more scripts on your page, the greater the performance risk.

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Quality Begins Where the User Journey Ends

Apica

Along with that primary workflow of on-screen requests and responses, the journey also includes metrics that are directly experienced by users, such as response times, the frequency of interruptions, visual consistency, and accurate results. All of these aspects of a digital user journey should be tested by a person. The Intellyx Take.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has also hosted the NY Web Performance Meetup, which boasts over 5,000 members, since 2009. Developers representing hundreds of companies work together at these meetups to become masters in performance metrics and the latest trends in measuring site speed.) He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.