The 2010 Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference came to a close yesterday afternoon with everyone exhausted from three days of networking and demonstrating the power and utility of our Web performance monitoring solutions to attending retailers and customers. For those of you who couldn’t make it, I thought I’d share some photos from [...]
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Retail Web Performance Strong Despite Record Sales and Traffic
With the Northeast getting slammed by record snowfall this weekend, many would-be mall-goers were stuck indoors and forced to complete their holiday shopping online instead. The result: online holiday sales on Friday and Saturday increased 24 percent year-over-year, according to Coremetrics.
On Saturday night, retail Web traffic peaked at 2.9 million visitors per minute, up from [...]
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 response [...]
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 retailer, [...]
Five Ways to Amp Up Holiday Shopping Season Results
Search Engine Land has had some insightful posts lately with search marketing tips and advice on SEO for the holiday season. Both stress the importance of strategic search engine marketing to drive shoppers to your Web site, but once they get there, what if the end-user experience isn’t up to par? Consumer expectations for the [...]
Web monitoring and preparation for the holiday season
Now only a month away, retailers should be seriously thinking about and planning for the holiday shopping season. While we can’ t be sure yet how the recession and strained consumer confidence will affect sales this year, one thing we can be sure about is that the best weapon online retailers have to capture sales [...]
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