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Mobile commerce performance by Dick’s Sporting Goods yo-yos from week to week

03/13/201403/11/2014 Jennifer Goula

The retailer has been drawing some significant attention to itself, of late, but its mcommerce results are inconsistent. When it comes to solid mobile commerce performance, every fraction of a second counts, and this message has never been more clear than in the example of the smartphone friendly website from Dick’s Sporting Goods. According to the mcommerce statistics from Keynote Systems, Dick’s has not been all that consistent. The importance of consistent strong performance in mobile commerce retail websites is very important. Even part of a second can make the…

Mobile commerce website at Sports Authority has bulked up

11/22/201311/19/2013 John Montgallo

Despite this fact, it has also grown its strength and its performance is still better than other sites. According to Keynote Systems, even though Sports Authority’s mobile commerce website has gained a great deal of weight, its home page still loads at an average of 9.45 seconds, which is not ideal but it is still superior to other sites on the index. Keynote feels that the retailer could still achieve far better performance if its homepage shed some weight. According to the company behind the Keynote Systems Mobile Commerce Index,…

Mobile commerce availability increases with better wireless networks

07/03/201307/01/2013 Stephanie Beck

Retailers all experience better site performance simply because of improvements to the networks, themselves. According to the Keynote Mobile Commerce Index, the wireless networks from Verizon and AT&T had been acting up, which had negatively impacted the smartphone site performance of all of the retailers on the index, but now that this problem is resolved, success rates have also improved. As the wireless networks smoothed out the issues they were experiencing, all of the index retailers saw improvements. That said, Keynote also pointed out that among all of the thirty…

Mobile commerce performance at Rakuten Shopping was steady in May

06/07/201306/03/2013 Jesse Collins

The smartphone friendly site was able to keep solid load time and availability last month. According to the latest report from Keynote Systems regarding the performance of the mobile commerce website at Rakuten Shopping, the company was able to maintain steady results throughout all of May, but it would actually be possible to improve if some interesting changes were made. The site has opted to load a desktop file which actually hamper’s the page’s performance ability. That said, the mobile commerce homepage for Rakuten Shopping was able to load at…

Mobile commerce performance considerably improves at J.C. Penney

05/15/201305/13/2013 L. Green

Keynote Systems has reported that the retailer’s site is now loading twice as fast as previously. According to the latest results of the mobile commerce index from Keynote Systems, the homepage for J.C. Penney Co. Inc. was able to slash its load time in half by 1.78 seconds. On average, the department store was able to load its page in 7.21 seconds, a considerable improvement. The rule of thumb, according to Keynote, is that the lighter a mobile commerce website is, the better it will perform. This was how J.C.…