The results are in. After monitoring the performance of some of the top online retailers’ home pages during the 2009 holiday season, we’re excited to release our first E-Commerce Holiday Web Performance Index. Overall, Web performance remained consistently strong, with few sites experiencing slow responses or outages. On average, the home pages of the sites [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cyber Monday’
Update: Cyber Monday Performance and Sales a Success
Online retailers are pulling out all the stops this year to attract shoppers and boost sales this holiday season. And according to initial Cyber Monday reports, it seems to have paid off. The National Retail Federation reported that sales over the holiday weekend (Thanksgiving Day through Sunday) rose 0.5 percent to $41.2 billion, and Coremetrics [...]
Performance of Online Retailers [Relatively] Strong on Cyber Monday
Earlier today, CNN reported a 39 percent jump in Web traffic when compared to the same time last Cyber Monday. So far, the home pages of most online retailers are holding up surprisingly well. With the exception of Kohl’s this afternoon, and TigerDirect earlier this morning, most major online retailers are exhibiting close to normal [...]
Transcript of Holiday Web Performance Advice Podcast
In case you’d rather read my podcast of Web performance advice for the holiday season, here’s the transcript.
How to Maximize Web Performance for Shoppers and Sales for Retailers This Holiday Season
The biggest shopping days of the year: Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and what I like to refer to as Cyber Turkey night (Thanksgiving night). For retailers, this is the make or break time of the year, and Web site performance plays a pivotal role in the outcome of holiday sales. If you are an online [...]
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