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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? You need network throttling for that.

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Ten years of page bloat: What have we learned?

Speed Curve

If you've been working in the performance space for a while and you hear me start to talk about page growth, I'd forgive you if you started running away. ;). And if that already wasn’t enough, the number of images on a page has been linked to lower conversion rates on retail sites. Clearly we need to keep talking about it.

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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. Having said all that, making your pages as small as possible is in the best interest of your users who don't have access to fast networks and devices. More on that later.) How quickly do they show up?

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Quality Begins Where the User Journey Ends

Apica

There’s nothing wrong with wanting the reassurance of good old-fashioned human-based user acceptance testing (UAT). Indeed, there was a time when applications were vertical stacks of software atop networks and servers wholly owned by the company. and getting pricing estimates from all of these parties. The Intellyx Take.

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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. Honestly, there’s nothing better than automation testing on a real device to understand how our site is performing across various devices.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup. Paul Irish.

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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. In such cases, content delivery network (CDN) is typically used to cache majority of the content and shield the system from high workload. So, the only way was to cache all necessary data to minimize interaction with RDBMS. Entity Gateway.

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