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Black Friday 2018: The Fastest and Slowest Retail Websites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
Black Friday online sales reached $6.22B. That's a 23.6% increase from last year. But with the increase in shopping activity, many retailers experienced website outages and slow-downs, including Lowe's,

IBM Digital Analytics (Coremetrics) had an outage on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Here's what happened and what you should do.

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Tim Grant
IBM Digital Analytics (formerly known as Coremetrics) experienced an outage that impacted their customers on Black Friday and Cyber Monday.This outage slowed down websites (the browser load event) on Black

Thanksgiving Day 2018: The Fastest and Slowest Retail Websites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
A record-breaking $3.7B was spent online on Thanksgiving Day. That's up 28% from last year. Traffic was up 40% from Wednesday for Blue Triangle’s retail customers. Blue Triangle retail customer traffic: 11/21

Cyber Monday 2017: The Fastest and Slowest Retail Websites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
Cyber Monday 2017 - the largest online shopping day in the US. Ever. Revenue hit $6.6 billion this year. That's up $1 billion from last year. To put that number in perspective, Thanksgiving and Black Friday

Black Friday 2017: The Fastest and Slowest Retail Websites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
Online sales on Black Friday rose 24% from last year. With consumer confidence at a 17-year high, $1 million was spent online every single minute, and many of our retail clients saw their web traffic increase

Thanksgiving 2017: The Fastest and Slowest Retail Websites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
The holiday season is upon us – the “Super Bowl of Retail”. Deals are flowing. Web traffic is flowing. And while shoppers have gotten early access to deals throughout November, Thanksgiving marks the official

Cyber Monday 2016: The Fastest and Slowest eCommerce Sites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
This year, Cyber Monday took its spot at the top of the charts as the largest online shopping day in the United States; a whopping $3.45 billion was spent, up about 12% from 2015. Although eCommerce sites

Black Friday 2016: The Fastest and Slowest eCommerce Sites

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
Web sales on Black Friday totaled $3.34 billion this year. That's up 21.6% from 2015. With sky-high traffic levels (9% increase from Black Friday 2015) and hordes of shoppers going through checkout processes

NCAA Basketball Selection Sunday Web Performance Analysis

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
March Madness is here. Millions of Americans are filling in their brackets online, predicting the Final Four and inevitably who will come up on top. And while the odds of creating a perfect bracket are roughly

Valentine's Day Performance Analysis

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
Let's face it. We've all probably shopped at the last minute for practically every holiday and Valentine's Day is no exception. In fact, Amazon even created a category on their site for this very thing.

How 2016 Super Bowl Commercials Affected Advertisers' Website Load Times

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
On average, brands who advertised during the 2016 Superbowl saw their site’s page load time increase by 38% during the hour following their advertising spot. High traffic levels directly contribute to

Boxing Day (12/26) Web Performance Analysis

Web Performance Industry Benchmarks Blog
Josh Carter
As gift card redemption rates skyrocket and consumers seek to spend their holiday cash online, the performance of online retailers is vital. American Express reported that 66% of holiday shoppers anticipated