Each quarter we monitor and rank the performance — defined by percent availability and response times — of Internet Retailer’s Top 50 Retailers. Today, we’re proud to announce the top performing retailers from our Q2 Web Performance Index for Retail. Based on websites’ uptime and average response times during the three-month period beginning April 1 [...]
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Transcript of our interview with Internet Retailer’s Editor in Chief, Kurt Peters
Last week, we shared with you a video interview we filmed at IRCE 2010 with the Editor in Chief for Internet Retailer, Kurt Peters. As the overseer to the publication written specifically for online retailers, Kurt has a pretty good handle on the trends that are shaping e-commerce today. If you missed the video last [...]
IRCE 2010: Internet Retailer’s Kurt Peters on the past, present, and future of e-commerce
Last week’s 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition turned out to be a great success. This year’s show was actually the best attended in IRCE history! It was a great opportunity for us to meet with some of our current retail customers, as well as numerous other companies interested in learning more about how Web [...]
The effect of Web performance on online shopper satisfaction
As you might have noticed, we follow the retail industry — and more specifically, e-commerce — fairly closely here at AlertSite, as such a large portion of our customer base consists of online merchants. As the Web has become an increasingly more integral and competitive channel for retailers, performance monitoring has become more a necessity [...]
Photo Slideshow from Internet Retailer Web Design & Usability Conference 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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