m-commerce performance Archives

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…

M-commerce speed at Best Buy improves as reliability drops

06/24/201306/22/2013 Jorge Gonzalez

The electronics retailer has managed the slash its load time by 1.5 seconds, but errors are more common. According to the latest report from Keynote Systems on m-commerce performance, the mobile homepage at Best Buy has an average load time of 10.82 seconds, which isn’t great but that is significantly improved over the results from the previous week. The load time combined with the site availability are what are measured by Keynote for its index. Both of those factors were taken into account when the ranking for the site’s position…

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 at American Eagle Outfitters improves

04/15/201304/13/2013 L. Green

An important milestone has now been reached by the clothing retailer’s smartphone strategy. The teen fashion retailer has just made it into the top ten list of the Keynote Mobile Commerce Performance Index for the first time since it has established its smartphone friendly campaigns and site. The chain’s homepage was recorded to have an average load time of 11.23 seconds. This, according to the tests that were performed by Keynote for its mobile commerce index on the week that ended on April 7. This reduced load time for the…

M-commerce website performance crushed by GameStop’s huge homepage

03/05/201303/02/2013 Stephanie Beck

The size of the page was damaging to its ability to load quickly and hurt its Keynote Index score. The GameStop online retailer’s m-commerce website experienced a crushing load time of 19.53 seconds last week as its massive homepage side proved to be too much for many mobile consumers, especially as it loaded successfully only 98.99 percent of the time. This, according to the data gathered by Keynote Systems for the most recent week of their index. Keynote Systems feels that GameStop simply made its m-commerce homepage too big to…